vladimir nabokov (1899 - 1977) was a writer of novelnovel
the novel is a medium of literature. commonly, a novel will take place in an urban, social environment and have an omniscient perspective and cut between various characters acting at the same t...s and poempoem
a poem (greek for creation) is an object in literature which is by itself a speech act, but as writing.
s. he grew up in russia speaking russian, frenchfrench
french is a romance language.
, and englishenglish
english is a language influenced by french.
. he went to cambridge.
playplay
play is a difficult concept to get a grip on, and randolph feezell has a paper arguing for a pluralistic conception of play as
behavior or activity,
motive, attitude, or state of mind,
form... was an important part of his life and work, and the book vladimir nabokov and the art of play argues it is his signature idea.
he liked chess, boxing, tennis, football, lepidopterology. he wrote translations of carrollcarroll
lewis carroll was a mathematician, logician, and writer from england. educated at oxford, he wrote the alice books, alice in wonderland and through the looking-glass.
's novels alice in wonderlandalice in wonderland
alice in wonderland is an english novel about play written by carroll.
and through the looking-glassthrough the looking-glass
through the looking-glass is an book by carroll and the sequel to alice in wonderland about games.
Humpty-Dumpty and conversation
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Some of nabokov's influences include pushkin, bergsonbergson
henri bergson (1859-1941) was a french philosopher. he wants to distinguish objective understanding from interior experience. his most well-known books are introduction à la métaphysique, Creative ..., borgesborges
siempre imaginé que el paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.
it is enough for me to say that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather than in certainties. a colleague declar..., emerson Private or Broken Links
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, Hawthorne, kafkakafka
kafka was a writer.
, melvillemelville
melville was an american writer of novels like moby-dick and short stories like "bartleby."
, john miltonjohn milton
john milton (1608-1674) was a writer of latin, english, and italian from England. He was given a education at cambridge, learning latin at an early age. He was deeply influenced by cl..., shakespeareshakespeare
shakespeare was a poet and a playwright of both Comedy and tragedy. He wrote hamlet and the tempest. he was inspired by ovid, seneca, plutarch, and montaigne.
. He loves tolstoy Private or Broken Links
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but has a more difficult relationship with dostoevskydostoevsky
fyodor dostoevsky was a russian writer. he was engaged with existentialism and christian.
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