'On the Road with Jack and Vlad'
Banned Book: Leaves of Grass
Why are books disturbing? Why banned?
Arthur Cunningham speaks about Walt Whitman:
- "anything powerful and true is going to cause trouble in the world"
- "float the stories on the vast river of Whitman"
- Full of music and a voice of sensuality dense and right at the same time
"Nabokov is in complete control of everything in his novel" ~Dr S
#4th best novel of the 20th C: it is the 'gold standard' of literature
Vlad is an "anthropomorphic Deity"
HH is 'charming and lecherous', he stole Lolita's soul
At the end, the story from comedy to tragedy
Jennie-Lynn's blog: Children at play pg 220-1
VN said that he hated Finnegan's Wake, but he actually understood and talked about it in Lolita!
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