Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter I was always partial to Hem's "The Sun Also Rises." His collection of short stories, "A Movable Feast," is one of my favorite books.
Ah, Hemingway is the true master, indeed!
Have you heard about Hemingway's six-word flash fiction masterpiece?
Originally posted by Bosse de Nage I never really took it seriously. What's particularly useful in it, do you find?
For me, it's about knowledge, more than anything. As the author says, the criminals already know the stuff that's in there; I figure I might as well know also. I have not found a use for anything that is written there and I don't think I'll ever have a use for anything there but I could be wrong about that.😲
I just finished reading Vladimir Nabokovs - Pale Fire and I thought it was work of genius. I read the foreword afterwards and apparently missed a whole hidden meaning (or 10) to the book but I think the whole way the book is structured, being a poem written by a fictional charactor and then the main story being the comments on the poem written by a deluded friend of his with a agenda to push, was a deliberate two fingers up at book reviewers anyway..
For a guy with Russian as his first language he has a stunning command of the English language!
Originally posted by Bosse de Nage Nabokov at his best is positively hallucinatory.
Imagine, what he wrote in russian! Every his english novel (accept Lolita) has an older twin in russian. I really mean twin, not translation. Because he rewrote them in a different way with new caracters
Originally posted by viskov Imagine, what he wrote in russian! Every his english novel (accept Lolita) has an older twin in russian. I really mean twin, not translation. Because he rewrote them in a different way with new caracters
I don't want to, because I'll get envious.
The Nabokov stories I like most are the ones about Russian emigrants in foreign cities. A magician, really.
13 Aug '08 19:47
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