This is a great question that Robert Hughes asked Vladimir Nabokov in 1965. You can read his answer in one of my favorite books, Strong Opinions . (If you want to get an idea of what Nabokov wrote about in Strong Opinions, you ca…
Life metaphors of the great authors. Here's a Q&A from an old BBC interview with Vladimir Nabokov: [Q] Tolstoy said, so they say, that life was a "tartine de merde" which one was obliged to eat slowly. Do you…