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Lolita
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Oct 21, 2009
bookshelves: classics, favorites, personal-collection, seen-on-film, 2008, read-while-in-a-foreign-land
I can't believe Nabokov wrote this in his second language. It makes me sick.
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October 25, 2008
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October 21, 2009
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I'm not green. That's just my impersonation of a muppet.
Joel, you should put some of your posts up, pending a review. They deserve a wider audience.
thanks, ian, maybe i will, and try to organize them into a more coherent structure. i read this a few years before goodreads and wimped out on a proper review, but it is a fun one to discuss.
Hmmm, I'm reading this now and am curious as to what your review would hold.
Hey, JoelWhat do you have in mind by "his second language"?
He is a native speaker of russian. He learned english later.
I'm just thinking that his translation of Alice in Wonderland (from English to Russian) was rather odd. I understand that there's for children odd, and then there's 'odd' odd. I thought his rather 'odd' odd. English could have become a more natural language for him after his... naturalization outside of Russia. He did leave it in his teens, never to return.Buuut perhaps nobles from that time spoke a very different language than us mere mortals do today.
