I've only read one other Nabokov novel, "The Luzhin Defense", which also featured a weird protagonist who winds up going fully mad, though in this one I don't think there was too much more going on in the subtext, though in reading crtics discussing his other novels, it does seem that Nabokov's style is to work his stories through demented characters, and maybe even demented plots. Like he is just about word games.
I want to tackle another of his novels, and I'm thinking of either "Despair" or "Laughter in the Dark". Do you have a recommendation?
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Date: 2011-05-22 12:19 pm (UTC)From:I've only read one other Nabokov novel, "The Luzhin Defense", which also featured a weird protagonist who winds up going fully mad, though in this one I don't think there was too much more going on in the subtext, though in reading crtics discussing his other novels, it does seem that Nabokov's style is to work his stories through demented characters, and maybe even demented plots. Like he is just about word games.
I want to tackle another of his novels, and I'm thinking of either "Despair" or "Laughter in the Dark". Do you have a recommendation?