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16 июня 2015 г., 18:45

Perhaps it will be clearer... «Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years»

Perhaps it will be clearer now that when Nabokov makes a great many of his characters artists and hangs the fact of their art in a prominent place he is not simply an aesthete or an egomaniac populating his worlds with little Nabokovs. For him the creatures of imagination on whom his stories focus are those who ought to be at the last ramparts of consciousness, ready to jump the moat to total freedom if anyone can.