From VenusZine, Issue No. 30, Winter 2006:
In one sentence, this book is about: You can't say what any great book is about in one sentence. However, if I could take a verbal snapshot, this sentence might be the negative: Lolita is a bridge between ecstatic dream and broken reality; it is an enchanted bridge beset by mirages and trolls; as the narrator crosses, it bursts into flames behind him; in the end it falls into an abyss.
After reading it, this book made me: better understand the meta-humor mixed with tragedy that happens around us all the time, but in pieces; in the book it appeared before me all at once, like a juggler with a thousand balls in the air.
Music to listen to when reading this: "In Every Dream Home a Heart-Ache" by Roxy Music. Anything by the Tijuana Brass, Britney Spears, or Strauss . . .
You should read this book when: you feel like it.
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Dmitri Nabokov is Vladimir's son, and here is his blog.
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