"He can write, but he's got nothing to say."[42]
— Isaac Babel on Nabokov (Wikipedia)
Vladimir Nabokov
42. Ilya Ehrenburg, Memoirs: 1921-1941, page 110.
MIDRASH
"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain" — Nabokov
"Someday we’ll see each other" — Isaac Babel