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Transparent Things
Vladimir Nabokov
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Description for Transparent Things
Paperback. Traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. This novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent histories they carry. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife. Nabokov's brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent histories they carry. Remarkable even in Nabokov's work for its depth and lyricism, Transparent Things is a small, experimental marvel of memories and dreams, ... Read more
The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife. Nabokov's brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent histories they carry. Remarkable even in Nabokov's work for its depth and lyricism, Transparent Things is a small, experimental marvel of memories and dreams, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141198040
SKU
V9780141198040
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About Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the ... Read more
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