The Original of Laura: (Dying Is Fun) A Novel in Fragments

ISBN-13: 9780141191164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str.

Vladimir Nabokov

Opis

This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans and family. It is about a large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous woman, and whose meditations concern the nature of death.

O autorze

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.