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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788845911781 (8845911780)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Adelphi
Pages no: 147
Edition language: Italian
Późna twórczość dobrego autora może się realizować różnie - w dojrzałym języku, jak u Myśliwskiego, lub w dojrzałej formie powieści, jak tutaj u Nabokowa (powieść ukazała się w 1972 roku, pięć lat przed śmiercią autora). Nabokow z wyraźnie widoczną radością bawi się formą i sposobem prowadzenia narr...
This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another.
Transparent ThingsFraudio> rosado> Read by Christopher Lane. pub 1972summer 2013tbr busting 2013short story (105 pages)> murder and madnesstongue in cheeksleazy> paedophillic undertones againfrom wiki: This short novel tells the story of Hugh Person, a young American editor, and the memory of his fo...
Following his longest novelistic work, Ada, Nabokov gave us his smallest, Transparent Things: a miniature Fabergé egg of a novel, highly ornamental, highly sophisticated in design, but with an elegant simplicity. Within this ovoid coruscation of Nabokovian bravura and prosodic flourish, is a jeweled...
As a resident of Geneva, I think of this book whenever I see a "No Dogs" sign. The French text says CHIENS INTERDITS... but, as Nabokov asks, why exactly should it be illegal to cross a poodle with a dachshund? And his comments on the sad decline of Swiss hot chocolate are all too true. Note to unwa...
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