King, Queen, Knave - Couverture rigide

Nabokov, Vladimir

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0141196920 ISBN 13 : 9780141196923

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped and mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

Biographie de l'auteur :

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141196920
• ISBN 13: 9780141196923
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352