What are some books that were robbed of their accolades because of bad covers? Is pic related such a case, or would it have been too polarizing regardless?
What are some books that were robbed of their accolades because of bad covers?
What are some books that were robbed of their accolades because of bad covers? Is pic related such a case, or would it have been too polarizing regardless?
>robbed of their accolades
What does that even mean? Like literary critics initially considered e-girlta an important work of literature and then this cover came out and they decided "never mind lol it sucks"?
>What does that even mean?
I means the cover gave an impression to the minds of the public, instilling the assertion that it was kitchsy smut. Now that I think about it, the film did that as well.
e-girlta is not a novel for the general public anyway, especially not the puritanical nuclear families of the 50s and 60s. How does the cover "rob" the novel of its accolades?
Maybe some people who come across it knowing nothing about it will have their ability to properly judge it skewed because of what the cover depicts.
Well I suppose that's the public's fault for being superficial. Asimov and Dick have published some very important work but some of their covers are awful.
Sci-fi is genre-fiction trash for entertainment.
you're literally moronic. anyone with a serious interest in literature thinks e-girlta is a masterwork and a landmark
literally no one except you was given this impression
You should know that historically covers weren't showing much you dumbass. Even 60 years covers were pretty minimal.
The original and most famous cover is just the text e-girlta on a green background. That's the cover made after the movie based on the movie, it literally says so.
That's the movie cover.
The first edition of e-girlta was just a green book with 'e-girlTA' written on the cover. People went bananas (in a bad way) because of the subject matter, not the covers. That said, most e-girlta covers are bad and ugly. There's even a video where Nabokov laughs at some particularly bad international editions. quillette.com/2019/01/26/reading-e-girlta-in-the-west/
If nobody has ever read "e-girlta: Story of a Cover Girl" I recommend it, it's all about the varying attempts at making a suitable cover for the book, especially interesting as a graphic designer.
It's wild to me that there's still no edition of the book with the cover Nabokov wanted.
Idk why nobody has done it yet. Regardless, I think this cover is fine.
What was the one that he wanted?
There's a couple quotes by him on it in letters he sent to his publisher (I'm pulling these from a New Yorker article btw)
>I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. And no girls.
and
>Who would be capable of creating a romantic, delicately drawn, non-Freudian and non-juvenile, picture for e-girlTA (a dissolving remoteness, a soft American landscape, a nostalgic highway—that sort of thing)? There is one subject which I am emphatically opposed to: any kind of representation of a little girl.
he cucked out
WOW, bellyyyy
idk man, big head small neck cause growth hasnt catched up yet, meet a blond girl like that in cristan school when younger brother were there, big head small neck, mom said shes so pretty, she follows me around asking me question and stuff,
went home looked at my own picture back when i was like 13 14, oh yeah big head small neck.
looks like little boy. now i begin to understand the ancients
Interesting. I can see why publishers wanted to get something more attention-grabbing, though.
If you want more motivation, they include a German cover that is just some random nude preteen model photo with one of the movie girls' faces pasted on top.
How did I not know about this book? How do I not own this book?
Is this book actually pro pedophilia or are coomers just cooming?
No. It’s clearly anti-pedo and the furthest thing from erotica. There is like 1-2 “hot” but implied passages.
It's not really anti-pedo in the conventional sense.
It is when you take a step back and realize that Humbert is the one writing and has motives. I guess if you read totally surface level and don’t think, one can see it as pro-pedo
I didn't claim it was pro-pedo either, brainlet.
Its about life. Read it. How are there people on IQfy that don't get modernist literature and what it is trying to say. damn it.
Stop getting your info about e-girlta from IQfy shitposts. People who claim it's erotic haven't even read it.
It was erotic for me. Cope.
OK, pedo.
Because you were prepared to do such a great evil at the start you got clapped and again and again on the way down. Even if the sky was not broken, which is down to your moaning, you would be in a worse position.
Your stupid excuses have no real baring on the reality of things.
You are worth nothing. Without your little overused glitches. You are nothing.
It's all fair a square.
You've been fined. You're in debt. And you're going to hell.
No further effort will be put in to support your barren minds. You'll likely be banished or worse from life. So much effort from higher ups must be used to support your little runner. It's not just me you're causing grief to. For you too. To save you from a lot of pain.
The sun's gonna pain you soon, and rightly so.
Many others would have paid to be in your position with the future it almost effortlessly brings. You egotistical fools.
Anyhow, I'm out.
If you were switched on, you'd think, 'how can it not be fair and square?'
Don't get me wrong. You're looking at multiple life sentences and debt up to here if that would even matter to one such as yourself. You are in a lot of trouble. If I were you I'd find out what I could do to heal my problem. Rather than losing yourself in the clouds that giving someone innocent impossible amounts of pain is good.