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13 de mai. de 2024 · Quotes. > Quotable Quote. (?) “We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour ...
11 de mai. de 2024 · 1517 likes. Vladimir Nabokov — ‘Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.No single word in English renders...
28 de abr. de 2024 · 459 likes. Vladimir Nabokov — ‘And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with m...
10 de mai. de 2024 · May 10, 2024. When I was conducting my research for my novel A Revolver to Carry at Night, I immersed myself in the correspondence, biographies, and works of Vera and Vladimir Nabokov’s biographies. It was in Nabokov’s poetic memoir, Speak, Memory, that I discovered the story that inspired Lolita, and began to understand Nabokov ...
Há 5 dias · Já no prefácio, num texto sensível, emocionado, Dmitri Nabokov, o filho de Vladimir Nabokov que organizou o livro, não esconde seu encantamento pelo texto. “Veio às minhas mãos na primavera de 2005, uma história tão surpreendentemente sentimental que, antes de traduzi-la, tive de sanar algumas dúvidas quanto à sua autenticidade", revelou Dmitri.
8 de mai. de 2024 · On a summer's day in 1950, Vladimir Nabokov, fifty-one years old and riddled with doubts about the novel he was working on, headed for the garden incinerator to burn his drafts of Lolita' s first chapters. His wife, Véra, caught up with him, and at her urging Nabokov paused to reconsider.
4 de mai. de 2024 · The quotes in Nabokov's book make people think about how humans behave and what is right or wrong. Here are 23 quotes from the book that offer insight into the novel's controversial themes and complex characters. 1. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."
