>without falling into the abyss of an excess of seriousness.
Right.
>Woody Allen equally managed, acording to Veríssimo, but Nabokov was the most agile of them all.
Excess of seriousness in this phrase is ironic. Comparing VN with Woody in that way is kind of ... woody. I can grant Mr Alen post-modernity with his interest in young girls and all but disagree with agile part. Just most agile?
>Nabokov was one of the first to suggest this balance between humor and seriousness and the road into post-modern writing (although he himself refused this label)
So may be and we should not drag him there. (I am sure not to be the last whose plee about it will be ignored)
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