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i feel like this position usually comes from people not being accustomed to art that isn't overtly surreal or absurd aiming for something strange instead of sentimentality or even just the more expected feels, however uniquely they might be achieved in other people's work. its partly due to how much work he leaves to the reader to make connections and read between the chapters but its partly just that he isnt going for a "Human" feel. nabokov could definitely be that too: see music, details of a sunset, breaking the news, torpid smoke, and especially colette, one of the best short pieces ever written. but in his later stuff, the coldness is definitely a feature.
