Jazzy D's Soul Notes

I do find Nabokov's prose quite entrancing in this novel, and it is the only one i have read of his ,and thus cannot compare it with the one you mentioned, or others by him. It's a credit to him that he's built this story in such a way that it holds readers, and paints the characters in such a way that they're not only believable, but somewhat sympathetic and understandable in a sort of grotesque fashion. It is partly literature, partly philosophy (those Sartre references, those reflections on love and fate!) , partly satire and also tragedy, and a slight whiff of pornography. Perhaps all of these but it is also beautifully composed with subtle and nuanced character studies.Yes, it is disturbing but as much as Clockwork Orange was. Perhaps sometimes we need the dark to make the light better.