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Find more info., search and price compare for The Real Life of Sebastian Knight: (NEW DIRECTIONS PAPERBOOK) by Vladimir Nabokov Binding: Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: New Directions Weight: 0.55 pound Dimension: H: 0.7 x L: 7.9 x W: 5.2 inches ISBN 10: 0811217507 ISBN 13: 9780811217507 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel in English, was completed in Paris in 1938, first published by New Directions in 1941, reissued in 1959 to wide critical acclaim and now relaunched again, with an appreciative introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning critic Michael Dirda. This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight's death, his half brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the famous English novelist's life, but he is impeded by the false, the distorted, the irrelevant. Yet the search proves to be a story quite as intriguing as any of Sebastian Knight's own books, as baffling, and, in the end, as uniquely rewarding. On one level, this literary detective story has pungent points to make about the role of the artist in a society basically hostile to the creative spirit. On another, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight probes the essential problem of the ambiguity of human identity: Just who was Sebastian Knight? |
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