Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.
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From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Eye
Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780307787569 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/16/2011 |
Series: | Vintage International |
Sold by: | Random House |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 128 |
Sales rank: | 877,959 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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