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After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov immigrated to the United States in 1940 and went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 and 1974 he wrote the autobiography and eight novels now collected by the Library of America in an authoritative three-volume set, earning a place as one of the greatest writers of America, his beloved adopted home. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight , the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, published a year after he settled in the U. S., is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writers half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of a famous author. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, this novel was published in 1941. Bend Sinister (1947), Nabokovs most explicitly political novel, is the haunting, dreamlike story of Adam Krug, a quiet philosophy professor caught up in the bureaucratic bungling of a totalitarian police state. I am neither a didacticist nor an allegorizer, Nabokov affirms in his introduction to the novel, but goes on to state: There can be distinguished, no doubt, certain reflections in the glass caused by idiotic and despicable regimes that we all

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Author

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; Dmitri Nabokov; Brian Boyd

Publisher

Library of America; Library of America, The; Literary Classics of the United States; Literary of the United States

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781883011185

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.45 / 5 (93 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14