Look at the Harlequins!
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2017
Summary
Nabokov’s last published novel.
“Look at the harlequins… Play! Invent the world! Invent reality.”
This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian-born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany, and then the US. Now dying, he reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris, his first wife; Annette, his long-necked typist; and Bel, his daughter, as well as his own bizarre “numerical nimbus syndrome.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198036 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even ‘God’s own novelist’ (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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