Book description
'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...' Vladimir
Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth
century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include,
from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense
and The Gift
; from the English novels, Lolita
, Pnin
, Pale Fire
and Ada
; the autobiographical Speak, Memory
; translations of Alice in Wonderland
into Russian and Eugene Onegin
into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and
Speak, Memory
are published in Penguin.
