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...that hyper-compacted poetry of the apposite adjective or unexpected metaphor that separates it from the more loosely polemical Russian literary tradition. It’s why Nabokov adored Tolstoy’s taut prose and thought Dostoevsky a hack. In “Laura” this compression unravels??degenerating near the end into mere personal notes (“invent tradename, e.g. cephalopium”) and haphazard lists (drawing linkages between self-dissolution and Buddhism...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nabokov's 'Original of Laura' Remains Unpolished | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

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