The Knot of Vipers: A Will of Spite (The Nobel Prize Collection)
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781908936202 (1908936207)
ASIN: 1908936207
Publish date: 2017-03-21
Publisher: Living Time Global
Pages no: 188
Edition language: English
I don't know if this is Mauriac's best but I can see why Nabokov loved it so much. It reminds me a lot of Pnin if Pnin wasn't so weak-willed, and of Becket's Molloy with a more "realistic" context and a much meaner main character. Meaner but somehow lovable, very much like a Nabokovian character.