Vladimir Nabokov Teaches Kafka's Metamorphosis

http://www.youtube.com/p Speaking of Lolita, Christopher Plummer as Nabokov himself, lecturing a college classroom on Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis: “There must be in you some cell, some gene, some germ that will vibrate in answer to sensations which you can neither define nor dismiss. Beauty plus pity is the closest we can get to a definition of […]

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Speaking of Lolita, Christopher Plummer as Nabokov himself, lecturing a college classroom on Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis: "There must be in you some cell, some gene, some germ that will vibrate in answer to sensations which you can neither define nor dismiss. Beauty plus pity is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity, for the simply reason that beauty must always die."

Via Grow-A-Brain.