Look at the Harlequins! — Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin)
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Description
Vladimir Nabokov’s 'Look at the Harlequins!' (1974) is a richly playful novel that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and fiction. Its narrator, Vadim Vadimovich, is a Russian émigré writer whose life bears striking similarities to Nabokov’s own, though the two are deliberately not the same. As Vadim revisits his marriages, literary career and memories, the story becomes an intricate exploration of identity, memory, imagination and the ways writers reshape reality. Filled with literary allusions, irony and Nabokov’s characteristic wordplay, this was his final published novel and a fitting culmination of his lifelong fascination with the unstable relationship between life and art.
Condition
Fair condition, some wear to the cover.
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