Can someone recommend someone similar to Nabokov, I am looking for someone like him, similar writing style, there the emphasis is made on language and expression, sort of poetry/prose type of thing.
2006-09-18 02:31:00 · 6 answers · asked by active_politicallover 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Try Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes.
Although I didn't care for the novel myself, it did remind me of Nabokov's Pale Fire, and people whose opinions I respect liked it a lot.
2006-09-18 02:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by mistersato 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Pynchon
Italo Calvino
Malcolm Lowry
Virginia Woolf
Don DeLillo
William Faulkner
Samuel Beckett
James Joyce
Salman Rushdie
Saul Bellow
Graham Greene
All fall under the same category as Nabokov
2006-09-18 10:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by BookLovr5 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Georges Bataille - Blue of Noon especially. Sort of like Valdimir Nabokov meets Henry Miller (with a touch of Hemingway circa Fiesta thrown in)
2006-09-18 09:55:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is or ever has been in the same league as Nabokov. Lots of other brilliant and inspired writers out there. But none that come even close to Vlad.
2006-09-18 09:55:08 · answer #4 · answered by beast 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jorge Luis Borges
2006-09-19 12:26:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only one I know that comes close to his "poetry/prose"-style actually is John Banville.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/202-2861903-8589440?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=john+banville&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go
2006-09-18 16:04:28 · answer #6 · answered by msmiligan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋