Book description
'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is . . . to
be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth
switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream
directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in
the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of
the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess
at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a
regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters
culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very
end - just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day' -
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 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 most outstanding
Russian migr writers. He died in 1977.
Dmitri Nabokov is Vladimir Nabokov's son.
