Look at the Harlequins!
A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian émigré who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness. • "Good farce throbbing with his well-known obsessions." -V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review
'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. Now dying, he reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist, and Bel his daughter, as well…
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June 16, 1990Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
Think, Write, Speak
Vladimir Nabokov; Edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy
Letters to Véra
Vladimir Nabokov
The Original of Laura
Vladimir Nabokov
Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov; Edited by Thomas Karshan
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by David Lodge
Vintage Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Brian Boyd
Lolita: A Screenplay
Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Martin Amis
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov; Translated by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov; Introduction by T. J. Binyon
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Richard Rorty
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov
Glory
Vladimir Nabokov
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
The Thinking Heart
David Grossman
Voices of the Fallen Heroes
Yukio Mishima
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Tomás Nevinson
Javier Marías
Knight's Gambit
William Faulkner
Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
The Rainbow
Yasunari Kawabata
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy
The Singularities
John Banville