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Style Pop Quiz: Nabokov and Proust
By Jay Innis Murray In his lecture on Proust, Nabokov breaks down what he considers three especially distinctive elements of Proust’s style. With a flourish of humor, he describes metaphorical imagery, clauses, and Proust’s merging of conversations and descriptions. As a prelude to this, Nabokov makes a claim about style in general. It’s not a… Continue reading
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Javier Marías describes a photograph in Tomás Nevinson (2021)
This passage moved me. I immediately recalled an image that had appeared in the press at the time, possibly after the Zargoza bombing, although it really doesn’t matter which, it was just one of those images you never forget; against a backdrop of desolation and destruction, the ground strewn with rubble and, hanging over it… Continue reading
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