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5.0�toiles sur 5 powerful and full of texture, yet deliciously brief, Mai 25 2004

Par	Robert J. Crawford (Balmette Talloires, France) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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This is typical brilliant Nabokov, with plenty of detail and mysterious threads laid down throughout that the imaginative can choose to follow or ignore. Because it was written in English rather than translated, Nabokov's prose is at its most powerful and organic - by far. The stories in this are extremely haunting, at least for me, musing on the nature of life after death, among many other themes. It is true genius and you can read it in a single sitting. Get it. You won't be disappointed.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Unreliable memories, D�c 3 2001

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Hugh Person returns to Switzerland in order to recapture those significant events in his life which happened or started in Switzerland. Person's past is a difficult one - returning stimulates uncomfortable memories (by this method, Nabokov reveals Person's story to the reader).

I thought that this novella was essentially an exploration of how memory can be invoked by both places and inanimate objects, and how unreliable our memories can be: we tend to elaborate our recollection of past times, actuality and our recall drift apart. It's often a shock when we find things are not quite as we remember them, when we cannot quite recreate what we imagine the past to have been like.

A short, yet interesting novella, reminiscent of Nabokov's earlier works.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Throw it on the pile of good Nabokov, Nov. 4 2001

Par	John Cullom (Washington, DC USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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Ok, it's not one of those change your life books like Ada or Lolita, but frankly, if you're considering reading Transparent Things, you've already read those anyway. If you've been burned before by Nabokov, you can trust this one, and better yet, it's 100 pages, so what's the risk? A good rule of thumb is that anything after Lolita is worth the time. Anything before is hit and miss.

Another nice thing is that this is a follow up to Ada and Nabokov's still cranking. There's new philosophical and stylistic ground covered, and one would have thought that there wasn't anything else to cover after the big A. It isn't another love story for the ages, but it's well crafted and entertaining. Oh, and this, unlike most Nabokov doesn't leave you with that, good lord he's a conceited (expletive) feeling.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 hear this
Sorry, I hate to be a pedant (but who appreciated passionate pedantry more than Nab?) but I have to correct the reviewer below me and point out that Transparent Things is one of... Read more

Publi� le D�c 15 2000 par blicero

5.0�toiles sur 5 A Lucid Tale of Memory
Hugh Person, an editor for a book publisher, lost in love. But there are things that remind him. Yes, many things. Read more

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Nabokov's inaccessibility
What _Pale Fire_ and _Lolita_ don't represent about much of Nabokov's work is the fact that it often seems to shut the reader out of its world--or at least leave him/her looking... Read more

Publi� le Juil 27 2000

3.0�toiles sur 5 Neither Nabokov's best ...
nor a good starting point. While stylistically very much in keeping with works such as Lolita and Pale Fire (lyrical, smooth, entertaining, moving. Read more

Publi� le Jui 29 2000 par Tom Helleberg