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lenin-it-to-win-it · 2 years ago

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Nabokov is like “I will write a character so pitiful and easily driven to madness. It is inconceivable that anyone could possibly relate to and/or like this sad, wretched little man” and then just give him an unending list of autistic traits

#luzhin luzhindefense my sweet blorbo..#it’s honestly so funny to me how much Nabokov did NOT anticipate people liking luzhin #like the narrator is constantly pointing out how luzhins wife is so sad and pathetic for loving such a sad pathetic man #and in the introduction to the book nabakov is like ‘apparently this book has more ‘warmth’ than the others.#‘apparently people like this character for some reason. anyway’#sorry king you made a poor little meow meow. no escaping it now

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