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'Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality.' In the final novel published in Nabokov's lifetime, 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'.Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
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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.
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- ÉditeurWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Date d'édition1975
- ISBN 10 0297768891
- ISBN 13 9780297768890
- ReliureRelié
- Langueanglais
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages253
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Look at the Harlequins!
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London. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1975
ISBN 10 : 0297768891
ISBN 13 : 9780297768890
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1975. First UK edition. Hard Cover. Pink cloth boards with gilt titles. No wear to book and contents are pristine. Dust wrapper is unclipped and is fine except for a tiny trace of wear at spine ends and a little shelf wear along the top rear of the jacket. Fictional autobiography narrated by Vadim Vadimovich N. (VV), a Russian-American writer with uncanny biographical likenesses to the novel's author, Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov. VV is born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and raised by his aunt, who advises him to "look at the harlequins" "Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!". This was Nabokov's final published novel before his death in 1977. Pp.253. N° de réf. du vendeur NOV1911039
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