Nabokov, metadata and civil liberties
“I wanted to be a famous spy.”—Humbert Humbert Vladimir Nabokov disdained most novels as “topical trash” and sought to create something transcendent in his own fiction. Yet topics dominating this month’s news about Edward Snowden—government surveillance, political intrigue, and spying—are oddly timeless when it comes to looking at Nabokov’s world. Growing up in the twilight […]
