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In real Life Nabokov did speak with a strong Russian accent. It is impossible to completely eliminate foreigh accent, unless you move to a country under the age of 3. After 3, hasta la vista, baby, you will always have a foreign accent. you watch interviews with Nabokov online.

While the psychology of Humbert Humbert is very literary and well-thought out in the book, I find that there is nothing particularly interesting or more than mundane in his depiction of Dolores' psychology. Franz Kafka is a much more accomplished writer, at the sense of absurdity and psychological confusion of adults making sexual gestures, although this is only contained implicitly in his work, it never explicitly posited itself as being about molestation or rape, but it did have those feelings of societal absurdism and the subjectivity and awareness of the desires of another person not equating to how one imagines or thinks of oneself much better and more interestingly. If it weren't for the interesting nature of the character of Humbert Humbert, Lolita would be a very empty book. The raptures are very one-dimensional, and once you get the quirk or gimmick of the book's controversial surface, nothing in it is really that offensive or shocking, unless its to the taste of the palette of a rigidly moralist conservative mindset of a bygone period of time in which the novel gained success through its publicity of its own censorship for its simple ability to have the gimmick of being about a naughty subject, but not for having a particularly original way of expressing kitsch ironic usage of romantic 19th century love prose to apply to contradictions in its scenario plotlines for cheap thrills of reading something daring and bold in its portrayal of a taboo set of themes. It is exactly what it appears to be; an urbane, Russian aristocrat bored in his life having fun giving writing to scandalize a spectacle in public that's imagination loves to feed on the forbidden thoughts of the public bad guy, who is Humbert Humbert, in the same way aristocratic newspaper men in New South Wales used to enjoy scandalizing the public by telling of all the bawdry and unwholesome tales of how the local alcoholic hang man romantically tried to marry his wife, a prostitute, in its chronicles of the wildly mundane and bored reading moral majority, which would love the sarcastic use of wit and irony in the romantic satire of the hang men. In contrast Kafka was not writing for public reactions of people, Kafka even tried to impel as his last wishes that his writings should have been put into the fire - because Kafka was more ambitious than Nabokov, Kafka was so ambitious his works themselves he wanted to destroy, as his own aim of in his words making a book that could break the ice of the human feeling with a sharp edge of an axe, wasn't an aim of a popular man, or a man who had literary success and privilege, but of a man broken in his heart and sharing an imaginative, original and completely new entire philosophy of how the entire world works through his pain. To me Nabokov was a best-Times-selling novelist of the type he portrayed and made a fame of himself to be subverting, whereas Kafka was a true genius.

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I could watch him go through all of Kafka’s work, in an epic 6 hour movie of just this 😂

I thot for a bit this WAS Nabokov on Kafka. It's Plummer pretending. WTFk.

Today the learning elite would stage a walkout for refusing to listen to a white male who wrote that horrid book called Lolita, which of course they would not have read.

Please dont delete this video forever please please please please...i am begging u🥺

You have to admire the old school actors , though strongly Shakespearian . Its sheer class and perfect diction and modulations

i think Kafka, shown here as a giant beetle, represents the outsider artist suddenly appearing unexpectantly in the midst of a bourgeois family. What are they to do with this abnormal freak?

Wow this guy is clearly like to give spoilers

what an incredible little film...much thanks!

Please explain the important notes to take away from such lecture?

"The passion of the scientist, and the precision of the artist" is probably the one quote that in my opinion separates a good writer from a great one.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this, what a jewel! brilliant Nabokov, brilliant Plummer

oy... Kafka was not a "petty clerk" in a Gogolian office -- he was an executive at a large insurance firm, and his legal knowledge of labor insurance issues was invaluable to his company

I think there is something off with this narration of the Metamorphosis which might not have been approved by Nabokov. It is really great, but there is something subtle nuance missing here. It might have come from the actor’s perception of the book. I might be wrong. Any feels the same?

just wonderful

The real question is how Gregor the beetle mysteriously changes its size!

I don't know much about Nabokov, but I think the analysis of Kafka's Metamorphosis was brilliant. However, I can not say I liked Plummer's pompous sounding delivery, which was overly dramatic for my taste. Being an aristocrat, Nabokov may have sounded somewhat like that. I don't know. But the way Plummer spoke reminded me of William F. Buckley Jr. debating James Baldwin, the inflections and pompousness that are meant to indicate good breading and sophistication.

Imagine knowing your English professor was writing Lolita in his downtime...

Wow!

You know what this film stock needs? More red.

He turned into a beatle but never played with John Lennon.

My favorite things about Kafka is how he treats corpses , or bodies destined for death: with utter contempt, because… that’s how it is

Superbly done

Why 1989 if Nobokov died in 1977?

This is based upon his collected lectures, edited by Fredson Bowers. One volume on Russian literature, one on English literature and one on Don Quixote. There was little to no critical theory in his lectures. Most of them illuminate the practical issues of writing stories.

Number pad a stream deck should be it’s own video.

Без влияния такой литературы , интеллект все больше подчиняется инстинктам - практически возвышая их . Поэзия Владимира Набокова не уступит его прозе!

Plummer became crap with egoyan.

Kafka was born into the Austro-Hungarian empire as Czechoslovakia was not brought into being until after WWI

holy jumping cats that's great

Humour in Kafka, Absurd, Marx in the novel America. Vera Nabokov translated Kafka for his husband. She was Jewish. He had a quarrel with Soljenitsin about the antisemitism of Alexander

Fine performance!

Conrad taught himself English through reading. He wanted to read Shakespeare in original.

His ingenuity borders on incredible. Of course, no Russian speak that British English rich and fluent as he did any more. He is undoubtedly the very last of the Mohicans of the great literary tradition dating from the heart of that golden age represented by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevski. I am inclined to imagine his American audience of the day had been rather tempted to write by his example, his ardent vigor, in spite of the ageing body, his general drive of an artist. In that sense, the Kafkean beetle lurks in each and every of us endowed with a few droplets of talent, for it is this kind of metamorphosis that turns us as human beings into a creature of creation, however trying and even repugnant such prowess may appear to the unproductive and secondary mind of an onlooker.

Is the “Nabokov” in this video actually Nabokov or is this a reenactment for the show?

10/10 to the show how’s for pronouncing Vladimir Nabokov with an authentic sound of a Russian speaker.

It's amazingly performed, love it . Christopher plummer RIP .

The greatest short story ever written.

This is crap

Takes you back to university days, eh ?

1959 was a great year for literature like lolita and naked lunch novels that led the way for such wonderful works as the atrocity exhibition and last exit to Brooklyn clockwork orange (1962 if not mistaken) and twelve to name but a few.

Fantastic! Thank you!

Fun stuff...

What a marvelous actor! No one has played such a wide variety of roles! RIP Christopher Plummer.

wonderful story by Franz Kafka!

Nabokov was native English speaker, he was trilingual

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