#every time I see ol' Vlad being an asshole I just >:) all his feuds and foes are prime amusement for me

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My favourite Vladimir Nabokov opinions of fellow authors:

Albert Camus: Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.

Lewis Carroll: Have always been fond of him. One would like to have filmed his picnics. The greatest children's story writer of all time

William Faulkner: Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

Sigmund Freud: A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense.

Ernest Hemingway: A writer of books for boys. Certainly better than Conrad. Has at least a voice of his own. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Loathe his works about bells, balls, and bulls.

D. H. Lawrence: Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes. Execrable.

“I’ve 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 Doctor Zhivago, or Faulkner’s corncobby chronicles can be considered masterpieces, or at least what journalists term “great books,” is to me the same sort of absurd delusion as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair.”

#every time I see ol' Vlad being an asshole I just >:) all his feuds and foes are prime amusement for me #'means absolutely nothing to me' I love you old man #Vladimir Nabokov #'Loathe his works about bells balls and bulls.'