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"Vladimir Nabokov expressed contempt for the idea that fictional characters
can influence their own destinies. "That trite little whimsy.is as old as
the quills," he told the Paris Review. "My characters are galley slaves." No
doubt Richard Ford intended an homage to Nabokov when he referred to his own
characters as slaves some years back. ("Sometimes at night I hear them
singing over in their cabins," he said.) But Richard Ford is no Nabokov, and
his narrator, Frank Bascombe, is no Humbert Humbert."
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"Vladimir Nabokov expressed contempt for the idea that fictional characters
can influence their own destinies. "That trite little whimsy.is as old as
the quills," he told the Paris Review. "My characters are galley slaves." No
doubt Richard Ford intended an homage to Nabokov when he referred to his own
characters as slaves some years back. ("Sometimes at night I hear them
singing over in their cabins," he said.) But Richard Ford is no Nabokov, and
his narrator, Frank Bascombe, is no Humbert Humbert."
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