Jansy writes:

 

[QUERY] Did Nabokov succeed, in "The Original of Laura," to extricate from
his writing the satirical instances he might have aimed at poshlost and
philistinism?

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Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poshlost
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Davydov, Sergej (1995). "Poshlost'". in V. Alexandrov (ed.). The Garland
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Nabokov, Vladimir (1973). Strong Opinions. McGraw-Hill. p. 100.  The
original interview, with Herbert Gold in the October 1967 issue of the Paris
Review, is available on line in pdf format, and an extract is available in a
Time article (Dec. 1, 1967) about the interview.

http://www.theparisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4310