Look at the Harlequins! (First Edition)

Nabokov, Vladimir

ISBN 10: 0070457387 / ISBN 13: 9780070457386

Verlag: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1974

Beschreibung

Halsman (Author photo); Robert L. Mitchell (illustrator). First printing of the first American edition. Light shelf wear to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple short closed tears, mild creasing/edge wear, and foxing to top edge, faint toning to spine. A tight clean copy of this novel by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, his final published novel before his death in 1977. Look at the Harlequins! is a 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!" The composition of Look at the Harlequins! followed on the heels of Andrew Field's biography Nabokov: His Life in Part, a biography that eventually resulted in the termination of Nabokov's relations with Field and in the novelist's failed attempt at legal suppression of the biography. Nabokov felt that Field had created a character named Vladimir Nabokov in his biography a character whom the real author could not recognize. Rear copies.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Fiction-Nabokov-2

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Look at the Harlequins! (First Edition)
• Verlag: McGraw-Hill, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1974
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0070457387
• ISBN-13: 9780070457386
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Russian Literature

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Book by Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich