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Loading... Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight / Bend Sinister / Speak, Memoryby Vladimir Nabokov
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Very curious situation. I read The Real Life of Sebastian Knight twice (some 10 years apart) and I read Bend Sinister once, some five years ago, when I bought this book. Yet I remember virtually nothing about the former, other than a vague recollection of some problem regarding the identity of the narrator, Knight and/or Knight's brother. In the case of Bend Sinister, on the other hand, I remember nearly everything in great detail, even to the point of being able to visualize the location on the page of a particular sentence. "Speak, Memory," and tell me of your ways! ( ) no reviews | add a review
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After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov emigrated to the United States in 1940 and went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 and 1974 he wrote the autobiography and eight novels now collected by The Library of America in an authoritative three-volume set, earning a place as one of the greatest writers of America, his beloved adopted home. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer's half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and The Doubtful Asphodel. Bend Sinister (1947), Nabokov's most explicitly political novel, is the haunting, dreamlike story of Adam Krug, a quiet philosophy professor caught up in the bureaucratic bungling of a totalitarian police state.
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1951; revised 1966), Nabokov's dazzling memoir of his childhood in imperial Russia and exile in Europe, is central to an understanding of his art. The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works and correct long-standing errors. They are the most authoritative versions available and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son, and Brian Boyd, Nabokov's award-winning biographer, who has also contributed notes and a detailed chronology of the author's life based on new research. No library descriptions found. |
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