Training objects: Vladimir Nabokov

The book includes two novels of the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, created in the “post-zerinsky”, the English-language period of his work. In the “True Life of Sebastian Knight” (1941), the storyteller, named by the initial V., in an attempt to compose the biography of his half -brother, the late writer, falls into the behind the art of artistic fiction, which makes him doubt both the personality of the biographer and the death of the majority hero. In the novel “Training Objects” (1972), the hero-hero, an employee of the publishing company Huga Person, who has the ability to “penetrate” the past, turns out to be the acting person of the works of a certain writer R. (parody doubles of Vladimir Nabokov), whose corrector he is. Separated by three decades, “The true life of Sebastian Knight” and “translucent objects” are connected with each other by the theme of literary creativity and dual, deceptive-slipping structure of the author’s artistic universe.

Author
Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich
Translator
Goryanin Alexander, Mailakh M., Dolinin A.
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Eternal books