Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Ever Since The Days When Such Formidable Mediocrities As Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland And Thomas Mann Were Being Accepted As Geniuses, I Have Been Perplexed And Amused By Fabricated Notions About So-called "great Books." That, For Instance, Mann's Asinine "Death In Venice," Or Pasternak's Melodramatic, Vilely Written "Dr. Zhivago," Or Faulkner's Corn-cobby Chronicles Can Be Considered "masterpieces" Or At Least What Journalists Term "great Books," Is To Me The Sort Of Absurd Delusion As When A Hypnotized Person Makes Love To A Chair. My Greatest Masterpieces Of Twentieth Century Prose Are, In This Order: Joyce's "Ulysses"; Kafka's "Transformation"; Bely's "St. Petersburg," And The First Half Of Proust's Fairy Tale, "In Search Of Lost Time.

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