winter fool *
American and Russian
It's me.
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Triple?
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What about Spring Fool?
What about?
Fool for All Seasons?
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New Fool, Universal.
My Hero.
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Fool Made in China.
But fools are patriots!
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It's true. Must be some mistake in my theory of fool...
-- Would you ever go back to Russia?
I will never go back, for the simple reason that all the
Russia I need is always with me: literature, language, and my
own Russian childhood. I will never return. I will never
surrender.
Nabokov's interview. (02) BBC Television [1962]
... In America I'm happier than in any other country. It is in America that I found my best readers, minds that are closest to mine. I feel intellectually at home in America. It is a second home in the true sense of the word. *
- Do you still feel Russian, in spite of so many years in America?
- What language do you think in?
I don't think in any language. I think in images. I don't believe that people think in languages. They don't move their lips when they think. It is only a certain type of illiterate person who moves his lips as he reads or ruminates. No, I think in images, and now and then a Russian phrase or an English phrase will form with the foam of the brainwave, but that's about all.
- You started writing in Russian and then you switched to English, didn't you?
Yes, that was a very difficult kind of switch. My private tragedy, which cannot, indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural language, my natural idiom, my rich, infinitely rich and docile Russian tongue, for a second-rate brand of English.
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[Why did you write Lolita?] It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.
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