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Don DeLillo, “White Noise”
1985 DeLillo’s zeitgeisty “breakout” novel tells the story of Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies (a department he invented) who can’t speak German. He works at The-Col… more →
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The 8 Best Nabokov Novels | Book Reviews by Massey
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wrote 2 days ago: Which is the best Nabokov novel? Any ranking is subjective but the reasons behind a “best of … more →
Rites of passage
wrote 3 days ago: Apologies for the long absence—life, as usual, has sprung up in the way. Though to be fair, in this … more →
Recognizing Yourself at Home, in Memories
wrote 4 days ago: Blog May 17, 2013 Mnemosyne, The Goddess of Memory I attended a great talk last night by Kenneth L … more →
The Butterfly of Doom
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wrote 4 days ago: Or so it was named by the late 19th-century Russians — leave it to them to label a butterfly as such … more →
lick of maple, blue marbles roll their eyes, peppermint scent
wrote 4 days ago: I just read the Wikipedia page of Dead Souls and probably pulled a muscle in my side whilst sneezing … more →
Intertexts? Hitchcock's "Into Thin Air" (1955) and Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955)
wrote 5 days ago: Those of you who stayed to watch “Into Thin Air” must have noted the emphasis placed on … more →
I really need to read this book (Nabokov)
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wrote 5 days ago: If you don’t know me (and basically none of you do), then you won’t know that I am compl … more →
Nabokov's Lolita
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wrote 6 days ago: Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the novels you feel sickened by, but obliged to read due to its cul … more →
James Joyce, "Ulysses"
wrote 6 days ago: 1922 The novel, probably the most famous ever written in the English language, was first serialized … more →
Don DeLillo, "White Noise"
wrote 1 week ago: 1985 DeLillo’s zeitgeisty “breakout” novel tells the story of Jack Gladney, a prof … more →
Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man"
wrote 1 week ago: 1952 Though it owes much to Richard Wright’s earlier Native Son, Ellison’s complex and s … more →
How much of human life disappears into oblivion like this?
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wrote 1 week ago: “Vladimir Nabokov was wont to fall into a reverie over nail clippings, bitten-off cuticles, tu … more →
A Daisy by Any Other Name: Possible Titles for The Great Gatsby
wrote 1 week ago: So, the new film version of The Great Gatsby just opened. And Mark is currently teaching Fitzgerald … more →
problems of degree: a review of azar nafisi's "reading lolita in tehran"
wrote 1 week ago: “There was not much difference between our jailers and Cincinnatus’s executioners,” writes Aza … more →
Heavenly Places
wrote 1 week ago: Life is pretty short on miracles. I know this because I have made that shift, as pretty much everyon … more →
Según sus propi...
wrote 1 week ago: Según sus propias palabras, (Nabokov) era visto como “un fabuloso ser exótico disfrazado de fu … more →
Pienso como un ...
wrote 1 week ago: Pienso como un genio, escribo como un autor distinguido y hablo como un niño. Nabokov hablando sobre … more →
Eric Naiman, "Nabokov, Perversely"
wrote 1 week ago: 2010 Naiman’s book is premised on the idea that “the ‘good reader’ of Naboko … more →
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility"
wrote 1 week ago: 1936 Marx’s analysis of capitalist production was prognostic: that it would exploit the prolet … more →
