King, Queen, Knave

Author: Nabokov, Vladimir

Brand: Penguin

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 22-02-2001

Part Number: 9780141185774

Details: 'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

EAN: 9780141185774

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English, Russian