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photo: une lettre jamais reçue No 2. techniques mixtes sur toile. 60 x 60 cm. 2007

Vladimir Nabokov
(April 22, 1899, Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux)

Now, why am I posting about Nabokov out of the blue. It’s summer and I’m about to select some old-read books + buy me some new for the holidays in some lovely Greek Island. While am at all this Nabokov came very naturally to my mind because I came across and old edition of a «Norton Reader» volume, looked under «literature and the Arts» and my eye caught this excerpt from a Nabokov’s lecture on literature(1980) where among other he declares that:

«Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader…» .

I’m not going to go any further writing on this, as Nabokov develops his reasoning, this will take too much of my time and besides, this post is intended to stay short. I hope I made my point, you see. it’s the month of July in this northern part of the hemisphere…

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a Wikipedia photo of Nabokov