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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think it's worthwhile to discuss this and come up with some more clearly defined rules. My rationale was that Nabokov wrote only four of his 17 books while in America (the first nine in Germany and France, the last four (five, if Laura ever gets published) in Switzerland), so I have a hard time counting anything that he's produced as being part of American Literature, especially when all of the themes and styles fit far more with European lit than American. He's really a European through-and-through, who moved to the US to escape persecution, taught European literature while in America, and then returned to Europe as soon as he had enough financial security. I'm content to change it to an american novel if there's that consensus, but to me it really doesn't fit there.
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I'm just on the warpath against you!
That's a fair argument, though.