Look at the Harlequins!
Language: English
20th Century American Classic Literature Classics Fiction Literary Fiction Literature Novels Russia Russian Literature
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Jan 2, 1974
Language: English
20th Century American Classic Literature Classics Fiction Literary Fiction Literature Novels Russia Russian Literature
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Jan 2, 1974
Description:
'Look at the harlequins... play! Invent the world! Invent reality.' In the final novel published in Nabokov's lifetime, 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 United States, and, now dying, 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.'