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Nabokovs 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. Vladimir nabokov studied at cambridge university, then lived in berlin and paris, writing in russian under the pseudonym sirin. Edited, having now read this a second time the complexity of this novella lies not in its plot or insightful narrative but in its structural core. Vladimir nabokov 22 april 1899 2 july 1977 vladimir vladimirovich nabokov russian. But that aside, the story had me from the beginning, half way through the book i just couldnt predict how the story was going to end. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of english prose. If you take platonov as an example, he himself was a controversial figure, who stalin apparently disliked, and so one might argue that he could easily, on this basis, have ended up in a camp, which were full of. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous liza. He travelled the region extensively, making maps of various districts. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized european colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar america. Essays and criticism on vladimir nabokov critical essays.
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