纳博科夫也为了瑞士离开了美国,但当马恩还在针对德国时,他创作了惊世巨作《洛丽塔》——用塑料媚俗洗袋写成的致美国的一封情书。
Nabokov also left America for Switzerland, but while Mann's subject remained Germany, Nabokov's American masterpiece, “Lolita”, is a love-letter to the country in all its plastic kitsch.
1991年,一位美国图书馆员发表了篇题为《纳博科夫的最后一部小说的第一印象》的文学批评,表面上是位瑞士的教授写的,但很快暴露只是一篇漂亮的编造作品。
In 1991, an American librarian published a literary critical essay, apparently by a Swiss professor, entitled "a first look at Nabokov's last novel", which was quickly exposed as a brilliant spoof.
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