What did he mean by this...

Those are from Nabokov's books?

>A collapsed pastry, that was what Nabokov’s style
Lmao
14-16 is the patrician range btw. A specific beauty that blooms and fades immediately

To me it seems like when someone say something in the lines of "Never say never" and you go like:
- WoW, so paradoxical.

>ren

nice

Dostoevsky is widely considered to be bad with words. He was a writer of ideas. His characters feel real because of his psychology. But that does not undo his tactlessness with words. What make Shakespeare and Homer so great is their combination of insists with an unrivaled facility to manipulate words, which is what makes a great writer for writing is the manipulation of words.

>14-16 is patrician
>posts a girl who's 19
ok

Why does he need worthwhile things to say. Novels don't necessarily need to put forward a statement or an idea.

>Dostoevsky is widely considered to be bad with words.

Do you even speak Russian?

No, but Russians have expressed that opinion. Also he isn't Joyce, he isn't a writer that attempts to maximize the power of language, this is something that is still apparent in translation. Borges said that Dostoevsky is an author who does not suffer at all through translation for this very reason.