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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Another example: Thomas Mann, who VN also professed to hate but clearly learned from.
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The non-Russian lectures all have at least some note of condescension, too
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Edmund Wilson worked hard to get Nabokov to even take Jane Austen seriously. Not fully successful I see
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