Transparent Things: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0070457344 ISBN 13 : 9780070457348

Editeur : McGraw-Hill, 1972

Synopsis

Book by Vladimir Nabokov

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."  --Martin Amis

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife. Nabokov's brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent histories they carry.Remarkable even in Nabokov's work for its depth and lyricism, Transparent Things is a small, experimental marvel of memories and dreams, both sentimental and malign.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill
• Date d'édition: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0070457344
• ISBN 13: 9780070457348
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 104