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Bend Sinister (Penguin Modern Classics) - Community Reviews back

by Vladimir Nabokov
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riley
riley rated it 13 years ago
This is pretty great overall. It appears to be a parody of the Orwell, Huxley, Koestler “topical trash” that Nabokov supposedly despised. Now, I am a fan of all that stuff, but this is still pretty dead on. Dead on both in mocking such literature and also in making the very same point as that lit...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 47 years ago
It's interesting to compare Bend Sinister with 1984. (Nabokov didn't much like Orwell, and thought he was a hack). Orwell's take on totalitarianism, is, roughly, that it's evil. Nabokov's is more that it's terminally stupid. Even when the rulers of the State would actually prefer to get things right...
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