This roundup by @CharlesFinch is also a smart meditation on a vexing question: Can great thrillers be well-written? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/books/review/night-school-lee-child-and-more-thrillers.html?hpw&rref=books&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well …
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Like his dismal of Freud & Dostoevsky, Nabokov was trying to hide his source material by dissing it.
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a good old-fashioned Bloomian agon!
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Yep. An almost textbook case of "anxiety of influence" - how Nabokov would've hated that idea.
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