Zadie Smith - Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt fo...

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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Zadie Smith

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Nabokov, den ich in meiner Jugend mehr als jeder andere Schriftsteller liebte, hatte solche Verachtung für den Dialog. Als ich jünger war, habe ich wegen ihm nie ein Wort des Dialogs geschrieben. Ich dachte, es wäre ein kindlicher Teil eines Romans.

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