NABOKOV ON DOSTOYEVSKY

By HawkBirch2001

This was really refreshing. I’ve always felt like Dostoevsky is kind of a slog—too heavy and hard to get through—so it’s nice to see someone pushing back in a more articulate way. And that quote is just wild: Literature has to be taken apart and smashed and all that, and then somehow you get the real flavor and it all clicks back together in your head. I don’t even know. It’s kind of intense, but it makes me want to reread it. Also, I swear Nabokov can’t write about anything without making it sound gorgeous.