Look at the Harlequins!

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung '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.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov Vladimir
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.06.1991
• EAN: 9780141198033
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119803-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Biographical fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction