'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge
'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...
ISBN: | 9780141185774 |
Publication date: | 22nd February 2001 |
Author: | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 272 pages |
Series: | Penguin Classics |
Genres: |
Classics |