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Tag Archives: Vladimir Nabokov
“Joyce’s champion game”
Vladimir Nabokov: Ulysses, of course, is a divine work of art and will live on despite the academic nonentities who turn it into a collection of symbols or Greek myths. I once gave a student a C-minus, or perhaps a … Continue reading
Nabokov on Ulysses
“Ulysses towers over the rest of Joyce’s writings, and in comparison to its noble originality and unique lucidity of thought and style the unfortunate Finnegans Wake is nothing but a formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding … Continue reading
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