How can I sing like a girl?

[cyrano]

Friday! I think. Yes! Yes, it's Friday. And that means questions! Yes, lovely precious questions. The ones you've been saving for a rainy day, the ones your grandmama left you and have been in the family for generations, the ones you found in a curio shop for only a dollar fifty and suspect that they're worth a fortune... all of them! Ask away! I demand questions!

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Much like the Shakespeare question, I think it's irrelevant whether Nabokov wrote the work or not--it should be able to stand on its own as a literary work. At the moment, it seems most convenient to assume he did, however.
And does 'Lolita' have the important elements that we consider basic requirements in Russian Literature?
Does everyone drink vodka?
At the end of the story is everyone either dead or miserable?
Is the book at least 2000 pages long and not a car chase to be seen?
Do the characters' names end in -ski or -ov?
Herein, I believe is where we can define just how 'Russian' Nabokov is, compared to Tolstoi, Dostoyevski and Chekhov.

[hamgallon84.livejournal.com]

It is a short novel, but people are certainly miserable in it. The names aren't all crazy, as the book takes place in the US. I don't recall any car chases, although I believe a dog is run over by a car at one point.