Nabokov was right about literally everything

Nabokov was right about literally everything

Not quite. I understand his aestheticism was a reaction to the growing 'school of resentment' around him---and his haughty aristocratic upbringing (how upset Nabby would be to have his literary views psychoanalyzed!)---but to say great literature isn't about the big ideas at all is willfully ignorant and silly.

He never claimed that, though.

>“Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”

Read his introduction to Lectures on Literature

He says while you can generalise a book with a theme aka bourgeoise culture is redundant, if you go into a book with that idea in mind it ruins your interpretation of a work, which creates its own separate world

Yup

bump

>austen shills are going deep

>implying his entire body of criticism isn't the height of satire

>reading Nabokov