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Way to blow up a point into absurd! Nabokov wrote about tiring of specific patterns and cliches obviously

I don't think that is at all obvious from OP's comment. Reading "But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment" the straightforward interpretation is that the writer doesn't like when a prostitute is represented as soulful.

If the problem is not the soulful prostitutes per se, but something more specific that makes it cliche, I think the quoted phrase could have expressed that better.

pretty cliche itself I'd say. Like a teen who thinks sarcasm is highbrow.

One cannot write without tropes, and not only because the attempt itself is such a trope.

That doesn't mean one cannot find Flanderization to be annoying, not even a decade (at least) before the character after which that TV Tropes entry was named, was created.

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