January 2011
139 posts
“But the books you like must also be read with shudders and gasps… Literature,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via mills)
This is great; thanks! I think he was a model literary critic even when I don’t agree with him. Nabokov fondles details like Humbert Humbert does nymphlets. He was a philologist in Nietzche’s sense: ein Lehrer des langsamen Lesens, a teacher of slow reading. In the...
