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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unjforgettable, one of a kind Nabokoviana,
By josh_ozersky@yahoo.com (Corning, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lolita and Poems (Audio Cassette)
Nabokov's accent (half english, half french, half russian) brings a fantastic, rhythmic power to this tape, in which the great man reads from his prose and verse (which he once defined as "concentrated prose"). Until you've heard an author read his own stuff, you don't really have a sense of what he had in mind, especially with verse, it being essentially an oral form. (at least the poetry I like.) Nabokov's neglected poems are among his best things, much better than his tedious early and late novels. Especially worthwhile is the author reading the same poem in Russian and in English -- both have the exact same cadences!n.b. James Mason reading Lolita is even better than Nabokov's version. I suspect Nabokov had someone like him in mind when writing. |
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Lolita and Poems by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Audio Cassette - June 1980)
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