sabato, maggio 28, 2016

On the Trail of Nabokov in the American West - Carlomaria Grassi

Today we revere
“Lolita” for Nabokov’s bold, multilayered subject matter and his dazzling and
allusive prose. But Nabokov’s most enduring contribution may be his portrait of
the brash, kitschy, post-war America he observed on his cross-country journeys.
Nabokov never learned to drive, and so he estimated that between 1949 and 1959 Vera
drove him 150,000 miles - almost all of them on the two-lane blue highways that
preceded the interstates.   
On the Trail of Nabokov in the American West - The New York Times

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