I love this man.Nabokov’s style – his love-affair with words, both Russian and English – always teetered on the edge of mannered preciosity. In his best novels, his wit, his ingenuity, his gift for parody and his incomparable eye for human absurdity withheld him from the precipice.
-Jonathan Bate, Telegraph, UK
The rest of this review is so terrible and disparaging that it makes me want to stab Jonathan Bate. But the above line, I agree with.
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