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nabokovian

a. Of or pertaining to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Nabokov (1899-1977) or his writings, characterised by a lush descriptive style and intricate wordplay.

Usage examples of "nabokovian".

Nabokovian tactic, a safeguard, a confirmation, and a reflection of the manysidedness of fact in the real world.

And Danilo Kis provides precise, poetic description that verges on the exhaustive, lending his novels a Proustian or Nabokovian air, particularly in the items he makes memorable: a book, a flower, a celluloid collar.

Antipathetic to the inelegant stylelessness of Communism, Kundera longs to produce Nabokovian realms of pure aesthetic bliss.