Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of Dead Souls, by Ilya Repin. Painting shows a man trying to stop Gogol (with thin mustache and demented expression) from burning the manuscript. By Ilya Repin - http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=11471, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3636844

Today in #LaborHistory 3/31/1809: Nikolai #Gogol was born. #Ukraine. #Russia. #Surrealism. Satirized Russian political corruption. Influenced #Dostoevsky, #Bulgakov, #Nabakov, #Kafka & Flannery O’Connor. #workingclass #fiction #satire #literature #books #writer #author

Just call me Humbert Humbert. On the 🚌 from Sevilla, Spain 🇪🇸 to Tarifa w Spanish girls with legs for days.

🎶 Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me 🎶

#lolita #nabakov #thepolice #converse #allstars

Profile for an academic specializing in Nabokov studies

You post *one* video by The Police and BlueSky starts recommending a profile like this…
#Nabakov

Two books I picked up tonight:

Nabakov - Invitation to a Beheading
Susanna Clarke - The Ladies of Grace Adieu

What’m I in for?

#books #booksky #nabakov #susannaclarke #reading #reader

Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of Dead Souls, by Ilya Repin. Painting shows a man trying to stop Gogol (with thin mustache and demented expression) from burning the manuscript. By Ilya Repin - http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=11471, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3636844

Today in #LaborHistory 3/31/1809: Nikolai #Gogol was born. #Ukraine. #Russia. #Surrealism. Satirized Russian political corruption. Influenced #Dostoevsky, #Bulgakov, #Nabakov, #Kafka & Flannery O’Connor.

#workingclass #fiction #satire #literature #books #writer #author

#blutoid
#books
#nabakov
#kafka

My first post...my painting of vintage books - 'Popular Classics'...acrylic & oil on board, 22 x 28 inches - my 2D library of favourite titles. I look at them and connect with the stories, when I read each, how they enriched my life. #steinbeck #lee #hemingway #Heller #painting #design #nabakov

Here's novelist Nicole Galland, co-author with Neal Stephenson of 'The Rise & Fall of D.O.D.O.' (& others) talking about my novella Cheap Complex Devices. 💙📚 #metafiction with echoes of #nabakov #cyberpunk #hofstadter #borges. 44 seconds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_SA...