Name: Desesperación (in Spanish)
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher

Anagrama

Collection

COMPACTOS

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20x12 cm

Weight

0.22

ISBN

8433966251

ISBN13

9788433966254

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Desesperación (in Spanish)"

"Desesperación" es una impagable joya literaria, una originalísima variación sobre el tema del doble en la que la inveterada astucia narrativa de su autor se combina con su diabólico sentido del humor. La historia empieza el día en que un fabricante de chocolate tropieza con un vagabundo que le parece su sosias. Cuando, más adelante, su negocio comience a hundirse, decidirá llevar a cabo un crimen perfecto que le permitirá cobrar su propio seguro de vida y vivir feliz para siempre jamás. Pero lo que importa no es tanto la historia como, en primer lugar, la voz de quien la cuenta, un narrador tan fatuo e ingenioso, tan brillante y chiflado, tan seductor y espeluznante como el Humbert de "Lolita". Y, al lado de este gran hallazgo, la infinidad de juegos, parodias, acertijos, burlas y bufonadas continuas que la apabullante inteligencia de Nabokov va proponiéndole al lector a medida que progresa el relato. Un relato que le permite, no solamente exponer algunas de sus teorías literarias, lanzar diversas diatribas contra los críticos mentecatos de toda especie, y burlarse de todo lo divino y todo lo humano con una euforia de la que sólo es capaz un escritor tan en posesión como él de unas inmensas facultades.

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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