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portada The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Category
Ciencia Ficción
Year
2001
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0141185996
ISBN13
9780141185996
Edition No.
No

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Vladimir Nabokov (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov

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Synopsis "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight "

Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr. Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, Vladimir, sets out to record Sebastian's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and meaningful digs at Mr.Goodman, Sebastian's erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever. As does the narrator's. Do they exist or are they an illusion? In the unresolved confusion between the real and unreal there are no answers, for this is a book that defies summing up in its quest for human truth.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg into an aristocratic family in 1899, but his family background first, and later his personal interests, took him to Germany, England, France, and the United States, where he began a brilliant career as a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, while teaching Literature at several prestigious universities. His novels Mary (1926), King, Queen, Knave (1928), The Defense (1930), Glory (1932), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Despair and The Gift (both from 1934), Invitation to a Beheading (1938), The Eye (1937), The Enchanter (1939), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Ultima Thule (1942) preceded the monumental success of Lolita (1955) which allowed him to leave teaching and fully dedicate himself to his writing vocation. Later came Pnin (1957), Pale Fire (1962), Ada or Ardor (1969), Transparent Things (1972), Look at the Harlequins! (1974). Among his non-fiction works, his autobiography Speak, Memory (1951) and literary essays such as Nikolai Gogol (1944) or his courses on European literature, on Don Quixote or on Russian literature stand out. In 1961, he moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1977. In 2009, his son Dmitri agreed to the publication of his unfinished novel, The Original of Laura.
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Sebastian Crespo Monday, January 27, 2025
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Nabokov es un autor impresionante en su habilidad para destruir esquemas narrativos.

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