Which of the following specialities provided vladimir nabokov with an important perspective on the work kafka?
a). linguist
b). lepidopterist
c). philatelist
d). zoologist

Lepidopterist

Explanation:

A linguist is a foreign language specialist, a lepidopterist collects butterflies, a philatelist collects stamps and a zoologist studies animals.

Vladimir Nabokov was a world-class Lepidopterist.

He was especially interested in the short novel "Metamorphosis" of Kafka, because it involves transformation into an insect, thus linking to his passion for butterflies and transformations.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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