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Crossing The Nabokov-vs.-Roth Divide

WORDS Posted: July 3, 2014 12:41 am

Joshua Ferris: “In book after book, Nabokov creates idiosyncratic, heightened, elaborately constructed worlds; Roth’s one book investigates and exhausts his world, the given world. When I was younger, I preferred Nabokov. … But you can’t choose what kind of writer you become; aesthetics is handmaiden to temperament. By dint of nativity, or culture, or epoch, or perspective, I was more temperamentally aligned with Roth.”

WORDS Published: 07.01.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 07.01.14

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