Nabokov advice please: what should I read next after Lolita, Ada, Pale Fire, and Speak Memory? Opinions on his short stories? I haven’t explored them yet.
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Sounds like Pnin is the popular vote, although this also strikes me as good advice: twitter.com/RichWill1972/s
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Pnin was outstanding—thanks everybody. So striking to read Nabokov being… silly? But still quite poignant! "It was the world that was absent-minded and it was Pnin whose business it was to set it straight." 😍 Next up: Invitation…
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The bowl dropped in the sink has made every reader I know gasp out loud
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Also, Easter egg: the little dog Pnin drives away with is the same one who kills Delores's mother in Lolita by running out in front of her car, enabling Humbert's creepy advances
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Yep. His work is FULL of stuff like this. Read the intro to The Defense VERY carefully, then after you finish go back and read it again :)
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