Meaning of Nabokovism | Babel Free

Definitions

An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977).

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Examples

“They are rather little signs to suggest how one might proceed up a road on which I did not do very well myself, the road to pure Nabokovism.”

“We both said, well then, let's put together some of the Nabokovisms we've been guffawing ecstatically over behind our hand on this magical white night.”

“[…] Nabokovisms, such as his description of cheerful Soviet propaganda as 'this pail of milk of human kindness with a dead rat at the bottom'.”

“[…] an irresponsible and profligate imitator (like many of the forty long-listed authors, who seem to be victims of the current epidemics of Nabokovism […]”

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