“Zhivago was more of a popular phenomena than a literary on”
Someone explain what “literary quality” is.
I haven’t read Lolita but am curious why it’s considered by many as a literary masterpiece.
Nothing beneath the surface, reliance on cliches and hackenyed images. Lolita is about a bunch of things at once. People quote from it.
Nabokov was a writer’s writer. A polymath, he worked with words like a prestidigitator.
The supposed theme of Lolita is Old Europe and Young America mutually seducing each other.
His prose is brilliant but I found Pale Fire more intriguing.