Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

'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'.

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

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.

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ISBN 13	9780141198033
ISBN 10	0141198036
Titel	Look at the Harlequins!
Autor	Vladimir Nabokov
Serie	Penguin Modern Classics
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-06-27
Seitenanzahl	224
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