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Buongiorno!
Oggi per la #domenicaadelphi ho scelto Nabokov.
Di questi libri postati non ne ho letto manco mezzo! Son una frana lo so! ♀️
Ma a mia discolpa posso dire che ho alcuni titoli anche su ebook e ho letto prima quelli.
Vladimiro è un autore, pur riconoscendo che stiamo parlando di un grande della letteratura, che mi piace e non. Devo sicuramente approfondire e mi riservo il momento giusto per farlo. Un libro che però mi è piaciuto molto è stato “Disperazione”.
Per quanto riguarda gli altri per certo non vedo l’ora di leggere “Ada o ardore”, mentre “Lolita” lo leggerò sposando la via metaforica dell’America etc che come punto di vista mi intriga moltissimo. Tanto comunque qualsiasi altro approccio suonerebbe banale ormai, vista la notorietà del libro.
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Buone letture e buona domenica
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Review: Apprehensive, nervous, guarded — these were my states going into the novel. After all, who wants to read about a middle aged man and his relationship with a prepubescent girl, a book that not only portrays a difficult subject matter, but perhaps glorifies, rationalizes it? And yet, here I am to report that the book neither endorses nor excuses its subject — nor is it a scathing indictment of sorts. Instead, Nabokov serves up an infinitely layered, nuanced, tender portrait of a man afflicted with desires that make him a monster. Cast in the same mold as his historical prototypes (Poe, Carroll, Dante), our narrator Humbert Humbert is both a poet and a monster, a criminal and a “creature of infinite melancholy”.
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According to Nabokov, the idea for the novel came to him when he read a newspaper article about an ape who, after months of coaxing by scientists, produced a charcoal drawing. The drawing represented the bars of his cage. This is the novel in a nutshell — the sketches of a cage, from the perspective of a self-confessed beast, continually defining and re-defining the borders between himself and the rest of humanity.
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From Humbert’s vantage point, his desires are so illicit, so hard to attain that they take on an enchanted, mythic, otherworldly quality — he is the “tender hearted, morbidly sensitive, infinitely circumspect hero” and Lolita the sovereign of an impossible fairy land. Fairy tale references — from Red Riding Hood to Snow White, Beauty and the Beast to Alice in Wonderland — inform the subcutaneous layers of many a scene.
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The language that Humbert uses to describe his world — meticulous, docile, narcotizing — stands in sharp relief to the unsettling subject matter of the book, and it is this angularity that makes the reading experience so unforgettable. The journey is one along alchemic duality, a train smash set to an exquisite musical score, a feat of intricate enchantment and manipulation.
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Can one create high art out of moral aversion? Read it and decide for yourself.
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Thank you to @inbookishfashion for hosting a #readinglolita readalong!
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Mood: Suspenseful
Rating: 10/10
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“I need you the reader to imagine us, for we do not exist if you don’t,” ... “My sin, My soul,” Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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Daily thought:
I’m learning to understand my body. For each freckle, indent, crease, and scar I shall learn to love them all. Expressing this is important. I talk through things but pictures speak louder than words.
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