Nabokov had indefensible opinions about: Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf, Hemingway, Sartre, Ezra Pound, & probably many more.
@yeselson Right, forgot about Mann. Which is odd because I think some of VN's stories owe a debt to Mann (and some novels to Dostoevsky).
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@HeerJeet He thought Mann was just a banal, terrible writer. He would have been appalled that you thought he owed anything to Mann. -
@yeselson Maybe I'm being too Freudian/Bloomian about this but some (not all) of VN's dismissals feel like the anxiety of influence. - Show replies
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