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A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.
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He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language (Anthony Burgess)
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Vladimir Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of anti-Semitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik Revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins. The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next 18 years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym "Sirin" and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925, he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri. Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in English. His most notable works include Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0297768891
- ISBN 13 9780297768890
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages253
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Look at the Harlequins!
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London. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1975
ISBN 10: 0297768891
ISBN 13: 9780297768890
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Seller: Libris Books, Southminster, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1975. First UK edition. Hard Cover. Pink cloth boards with gilt titles. No wear to book and contents are pristine. Dust wrapper is unclipped and is fine except for a tiny trace of wear at spine ends and a little shelf wear along the top rear of the jacket. Fictional autobiography narrated by Vadim Vadimovich N. (VV), a Russian-American writer with uncanny biographical likenesses to the novel's author, Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov. VV is born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and raised by his aunt, who advises him to "look at the harlequins" "Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!". This was Nabokov's final published novel before his death in 1977. Pp.253. Seller Inventory # NOV1911039
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