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Originally Posted by cearbhallain
When I was a kid (early 20's) I loved Nabokov. Not so much the big books like Ada and Lolita, but the devilish small novels like Camera Obscura and King, Queen Knave. His short stories were okay, but I don't remember then now like I do the "lesser" novels.
In the 80's there was also a smattering of women's fiction from the USSR that was published here in the US. One of those books, The Women's Decameron by Julia Voznesenskaya became one of my favorites in contemporary feminist literature.
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oh, i looove Camera Obscura... did you read it in Russian or english?
Great thing about Nabokov, he wrote in both languages... i read Lolita in Russian and english, honestly one is as good as the other.. which hardly ever happens in translated books. I consider Nabokov truly a master of written language.
Interesting, i've never heard of Women's Decameron.. although i have read and re-read the classical Decameron!
will def check it out...