Look at the Harlequins!

Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 10: 0141198036 / ISBN 13: 9780141198033

Verlag: PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS Jun 1991, 1991

Beschreibung

Neuware - 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, 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780141198033

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Look at the Harlequins!
• Verlag: PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS Jun 1991
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0141198036
• ISBN-13: 9780141198033
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

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

'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, 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'.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.