That in Aleppo Once... by Vladimir Nabokov

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After Vladimir Nabokov's death in 1977, the novelist John Updike included the following praise of him (reprinted in Critical Essays on Vladimir Nabokov) in an obituary:

The power of the imagination is not apt soon to find another champion of such vigor. . . . He takes with him the secret of an undiscourageable creativity, he leaves behind a resplendent oeuvre.

Updike's admiration of Nabokov's work is one shared by many readers. Although he is best known...

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