
Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov
The New Yorker: Fiction
The Art of Humbert Nabokov
I found that in a way that implicates the reader makes the reader part of what's happening so you can't really judge. And there is this kind of leaning in effect where kind of the moment we meet Humbert we realize that we need to take some distance but he's already inside of us in a way. He was in my mouth and he was in my ears but also that this he changed the way I saw the world. Also as a younger writer, just the fact that he the experimentation he did in the novels I found that super impressive.
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