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King, Queen, Knave |
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| Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 288 pages | ISBN 9780141185774 | 22 Feb 2001 | Penguin Classic |
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‘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…’
‘Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest’, Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave.
‘Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written – that is, ecstatically’ – John Updike
‘He is the flinty antagonist, his brilliance the light sparked from fiction. He plays games with our expectations, now frustrating them, now fulfilling them, now forcing them to change’ Edmund White
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