NPPF Faulkner and Proust

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Kinbote's note to line 181:

    ... a little pillar of library books ... they were mostly by
    Mr Faulkner ...

       "Speaking of novels ... Proust's rough masterpiece ... "

I suspect Nabokov would have had a healthy admiration for Faulkner, and the
reference here is perhaps in the spirit of a doff of the cap.

And the intricate way in which Kinbote responds to the affront and upset
suffered at being snubbed by Sybil and Shade by marking that passage in _À
la recherche du temps perdu_ is quite wonderful. The way he fends off
Sybil's attempts to interrupt and gets right through to the conclusion of
what must have been a prepared speech is to be admired also. Here again the
balance of sympathy seems to me to be tilted in Kinbote's favour.

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