Look at the Harlequins! (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140086218 ISBN 13: 9780140086218

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1987

Synopsis

'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 US, 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'.

Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.

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Review

He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language (Anthony Burgess)

About the Author

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers. He died in 1977.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140086218
• ISBN 13: 9780140086218
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200