I was so lucky to get to go this summer to Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore. that opened in 1919 The line, to my delight, was incredibly long and everyone was happily waiting to check out the gems inside. Especially impressive to me were the collection of #Beat writers, Paul #Auster and Vladimir #Nabokov novels. I stayed for hours and bought a copy of James #Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.
I was so lucky to get to go this summer to Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore. that opened in 1919 The line, to my delight, was incredibly long and everyone was happily waiting to check out the gems inside. Especially impressive to me were the collection of #Beat writers, Paul #Auster and Vladimir #Nabokov novels. I stayed for hours and bought a copy of James #Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.
J’écoute un Bookclub de France Cul sur Lolita. Même avec toutes les clefs en main, je trouve ce roman très difficile à lire, je n’ai pas réussi à le terminer, Humbert Humbert me donne vraiment trop la nausée . Que penses-tu, toi Masto de ce roman? #lolita #nabokov #vendredilecture
@deirdrespencer. #Nabokov knows ALL the words! In English, French, and Russian!
My son gave me a book of (very) short stories by Nabokov for my birthday, and in the first tale, “The Wood-Sprite,” I came across a wonderful word that was new to me: tintinnabulation, meaning a ringing or tinkling sound.
It rather delighted me, so I thought I’d share it with you.
⚮⚮⚮My everyday life would be a lot more pleasant if it were not bookended by brohams.
⚮⚮⚮Planted a garnet yam.
⚮⚮⚮Was going to regularize my reading and was sucked in by #Nabokov help
@BuffaloResearch. Love the #NYPL. So grateful to have read their #Nabokov materials for a piece I wrote on Ada, or Ardor, the word or, #Poe, and the "O" and the "R" in the word Nevermore (See #TheRaven, of course, and #ThePhilosophyOfComposition).
I know I really should be better than being suckered into the ‘utterly subservient & loyal & ridiculously beautiful sad-smiling virtual women’ tropes that are being played with (or perhaps even exploited) in #bladerunner2049 but then they cast #AnadeArmas as Joi and have her bring out #Nabokov ‘s #PaleFire & offer to read it out loud and, well, um…
4. Ada, or Ardor | Nabokov 1969
The title itself is a puzzle before you even open to the first (dense) page. "Ad" is "hell" in Russian, "da" means "yes" and in British English "Ada" and "Ardour" are homophones, so it all sounds like ["Ada oh Ada"]. A typically lyrical, despicable #Nabokov love story (the protagonist's surname is Russian for "guilt" [Veen]), a lifetime long, the whole thing taking place among and between three languages, on another planet.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/ada-or-ardor-a-family-chronicle-vladimir-nabokov/15563782?ean=9780679725220
