Look at the Harlequins! (Penguin Modern Classics)

Look at the Harlequins! (Penguin Modern Classics)
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As intricate as a house of mirrors, Nabokovâ€™s last novel is an ironic play on the Janus-like relationship between fiction and reality. It is the autobiography of the eminent Russian-American author Vadim Vadimovich N. (b. 1899), whose life bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, though the two are not to be confused (?). Focusing on the central figures of his life â€• his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia â€• the book leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an author have crossed the line between his lifeâ€™s work and his life itself, as the worlds of reality and literary invention grow increasingly indistinguishable. One of the twentieth centuryâ€™s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. â€œOne of the greatest masters of prose since Conrad.â€ â€• Harperâ€™s
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
Format International Edition
EANs 9780141197159
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
Format	International Edition
EANs	9780141197159
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Look at the Harlequins! (Penguin Modern Classics)

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