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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