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The Gift is Vladimir Nabokov ’s best novel written in Russian – dense, voluminous, multifaceted, multilayered, multilevel, nostalgic, linguistically splendid and most beautiful. Then, when I fell under the spell of butterflies, something unfolded in my soul and I relived all my father’s journeys, as i Leggi tutto

I don't think I know enough about Russian literature to properly get this book, but it did have some great moments. One in particular that I'm often reminded of whenever people on either side of the religion/skepticism debate start saying that things are "obvious". A character is in the middle of an Leggi tutto

CRITIQUE ["WORKIN' ON MYSTERIES WITHOUT ANY CLUES"]: Random Collection Of Consonants As soon as I started "The Gift", I realised that it was so long since I'd read any serious Russian literature (my reading life started with Gogol and Turgenev, followed shortly after by Laurence Sterne), that I was no Leggi tutto

Reading 'The Gift' was an unforgettable mind-blowing experience. I haven't read some of Nabokov's works yet, so to me 'The Gift' is the most impressive work among the ones I have. To me Nabokov is the Writer par excellence. Although the beauty, sophistication and complexity of his prose might be los Leggi tutto

Não é um livro fácil e as razões para tal são várias — a estrutura é multilinear e descontínua; a forma é poética e de vocabulário rico mas escrito como torrente descritiva; e o contexto exigido é não só enorme como distante da maioria dos leitores contemporâneos. Não acontece muito, ou quase nada, Leggi tutto