The critic James Wood argued that Nabokov's use of descriptive detail proved an overpowering, and not always very fruitful, influence on two or three generations after him, including authors such as Martin Amis and John Updike.[28] While a student at Cornell in the 1950s, Thomas Pynchon attended several of Nabokov's lectures[29] and went on to make a direct allusion to Lolita in chapter six of h