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...
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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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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307787569 (0307787567)
ASIN: 9780307787569
Publish date: 16-02-2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Fiction,
Novella
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