Nabokovism

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Noun
  1. 1
    An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). countable, uncountable

    "They are rather little signs to suggest how one might proceed up a road on which I did not do very well myself, the road to pure Nabokovism."

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"They are rather little signs to suggest how one might proceed up a road on which I did not do very well myself, the road to pure Nabokovism."

Etymology

From Nabokov + -ism.

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