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by Nabokov, Vladimirbo 50

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New York: Phaedra Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 114 pages; Hard cover is wheat colored boards with black writing on spine. Slight shelf wear; spotting on text edges. . Pages are clean, crisp and tight; appears as If unused. DJ has some sunning, shelf wear, rubbing, 1/2" closed tear at bottom of back; in a mylar cover. Stated first edition. "Smurov, a young Russian emigree living in Berlin, believes he has committed suicide. During his recovery, he creates a new existence, unconnected to his previous experience. Questions of reality and identity permeate this novella, which reads rather like an internalized detective story". .

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins. The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri. Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in English. In his afterword to Lolita he claimed: "My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses--the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions--which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way." [p. 317] Yet Nabokov's American period saw the creation of what are arguably his greatest works, Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.

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Title
THE EYE [ 1st ]
Author
Nabokov, Vladimirbo 50
Format/Binding
First Printing; Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Phaedra Publishers
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1965
Keywords
Literature;, Fiction;, 20th Century Authors;, Psychology;, Russian Americans;, Authors;, Cultural History;, Social History;

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