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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth': Romanian author Mircea Cartarescu

Mircea Cartarescu's lifelong fascination with butterflies shapes his fiction and connects him to Vladimir Nabokov's lepidopterist legacy.
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

A Great Author's Ongoing Struggle

This happened to me in 2009, when I read The Original of Laura-which consists of unedited fragments of Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished last novel-and noticed that, after 35 years of writing in English, the author had still struggled to spell bicycle. I had imagined Nabokov's leap away from Russian, his native language, as an instantaneous, effortless transformation, but now I realized that it must have been an ongoing struggle-one that enhanced his dazzlingly precise fiction.
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