The Eye - Penguin Modern Classics
The Eye - Penguin Modern Classics
paperback | English
Published:
30 January, 1992
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Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he can discover very little about his own life from the opinions of his distracted, confused fellow-émigrés. Nabokov's shortest novel, The Eye is both a satirical detective story and a wonderfully layered exploration of identity, appearance and the loss of self in a world of word-play and confusion.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780140184822 |
| ISBN10 | 0140184821 |
| Number Of Pages | 96 |
| Item Weight | 80 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 6 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.