Nabokov on being a good reader and writer.
@Godward16
“Alas, I have known people whose purpose in reading the French and Russian novelists was to learn something about life in gay Paree or in sad Russia.”
How could we ever know?
Very regrettable that modernity has pinned the Rus against the Anglo. If it weren’t so sad it would be hilarious.
If sobornost was ever possible, it no longer seems to be in the West (at least for now).
Maybe the Rus can get it done. Maybe Dostoyevsky was right about Russian Messianism.
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