Thoughts?

objectively his masterpiece.

>>7747380
>2016
>having "thoughts"

best novel/whatever it is of the 20th century tbqh

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>you will never have a dear friend write a poem write about your lost kingdom
Why live?

>>7747380
meh.

I liked the poem more than Kinbotes commentary

>>7747380
Jet fuel can't melt steel verse.

>>7747380
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane

Is sincerely one of my favourite opening lines in all of poetry

The way Nabokov can characterize someone and world build through footnotes is pretty astounding.

All in all I give it a gr8/10

is this the only decent post-modern work

its fantastic.

>>7747380
He kind of fails at the project he set up for himself because Kinbote doesn't actually commentate on the poem.

It would have been more metafictive if Kinbote actually bothered to like talk about the form of the verse rather than go straight into weird reminiscing. Then again Nabokov probably didn't want to critique his own poem properly.

>>7747380

Is there a version with better critical notes? My copy has this crazy foreign guy who keeps making the poem about himself.

>>7748229
lol

It is an accurate critique of reader response and relativist criticism, but I like the idea that the spirit is forcing kinbote to finish the poem, so that it actually influences his future actions when he reads it. Thus a spirit or art acts on the reader even though consciously he fails to apprehend it and creates a delusion about himself. Very clever and subtle, but obviously over the top. Nabokov is a great writer.