What Can You Tell From a Fancy Prose Style?
Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita, but he was no mere writer. The famous novelist was also a distinguished lepidopterist, husband, pedant and avuncular cutie–”a fat hatless old man in shorts,” as he described himself–and Lila Azam Zanganeh’s The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (Norton, 228 pages, $23.95) duly showcases these facets of his character. Formally, the book Read More
