He was known as the writer with the unpronounceable name who wrote an erotic book about a nymphet named Loita. Nabokov was "incapable of composing a dull book of writing a graceless sentence." One critic said "there is more pleasure to be derived from a Nabokov novel than from almost anything else availble in contemporary literature." Another said Mr. It was as though a composite had been created, with the head of a genius storyteller, the heart of a philosopher and the hand of a prose stylist ever celebrating the delights of language. Nabokov was that he played so deftly and confidently with thought that his writing never seemed the work of a lone imagination. "THERE IS NOTHING more splendid than lone thought," a character says in "Ada," the 1969 novel of Vladimir Nabokov.
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