The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

 
9780141185996: The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight (Penguin Modern Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0141185996 ISBN 13: 9780141185996
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, 2001

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Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and digs, Sebastian's erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever.

Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.

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Vladimir Nabokov (Author)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

John Lanchester (Afterword by)
John Lanchester is a journalist, novelist and winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker, with a monthly column in Esquire. John was raised in South-East Asia and now lives in London.

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Verlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141185996
ISBN 13 
9780141185996
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Anzahl der Seiten
192
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