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bastard also LITERARY (278): Nabokov against everyone and everything

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Although he failed global celebrity until the fifty-six years with the absurdly outrageous publishing Lolita, Nabokov was always confident of his talent. At oral apology for his clumsiness, he used to rule: "I think as a genius, I write like a distinguished author and I speak as a child." It bothered him greatly attributed influences, whether of Joyce, Kafka or Proust, but especially Dostoyevsky, who hated, calling it "a cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar." Actually hated almost every writer, Mann and Faulkner, Conrad and Lorca, Lawrence and Pound, Camus and Sartre, Balzac and Forster. Tolerated Henry James, Conan Doyle and HG Wells. Joyce's Ulysses admired, but felt the Finnegans Wake "regional literature", which also generally abhorred. Spanned the Petersburg of fellow Biely, the first half of In Search of Lost Time , Pushkin and Shakespeare, a little more. Don Quixote did not understand, and despite him being against it over excited. But above all hated to four doctors - "Dr. Freud, Dr. Zhivago, Dr. Schweitzer and Dr. Castro of Cuba" - especially at first one of the black beasts that used to be called "the Viennese quack" and whose theories considered comparable to medieval astrology and palmistry. Her hobbies and dislikes, however, reached much further: he hated jazz, bulls, masks, primitive folk, ambient music, pools, trucks, transistors, bidet, insecticides, yachts, circus, thugs, night-clubs and the roar of motorcycles, to name just a few examples.
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Javier Marias, Written Lives , Suma de Letras, Madrid, 2002, pp. 144 and 145
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