>>266"Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first -a dull man writing broken English, the second -a broken man writing dull English"
I recently read this book and loved it!
I recently read Pale Fire and totally fell in love but it also took me a bit to read cause of how dense it was… Do you reckon The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is tougher or lighter?
Pale Fire is about as dense as it gets–it's certainly produced the most voluminous set of mildly deranged, mildly genius commentary from online Nabokov fans, if that's any indicator.