An edition of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941)

The real life of Sebastian Knight

1st Vintage international ed.
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An edition of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941)

The real life of Sebastian Knight

1st Vintage international ed.
  • 2.80 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 9 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

En apariencia se trata de la simple biografía de un escritor, Sebastian Knight, escrita por su hermanastro «V» con la intención de corregir las falsedades vertidas sobre su persona en otra biografía, escrita con tendenciosidad y graves prejuicios intelectuales por el ex agente literario de Sebastian. Como en una novela policíaca, «V» tratará de hallar la verdad acerca de ese hermano con el que apenas convivió, buscará en sus obras alusiones autobiográficas, se entrevistará con las mujeres que tuvo por amantes y con los testigos que pueden proporcionarle alguna luz. Pero, siempre anticonvencional, Nabokov hará que todas esas tentativas se frustren e irá dejando sucesivamente abiertos todos los interrogantes, pues esta fingida investigación sólo pretende delatar la falacia de nuestras certidumbres y recordarnos la radical incognoscibilidad del ser humano.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
203

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Cover of: Истинная жизнь Севастьяна Найта
Cover of: The real life of Sebastian Knight
The real life of Sebastian Knight
1992, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.
Cover of: The real life of Sebastian Knight
The real life of Sebastian Knight
1971, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
1970?, New Directions
in English
Cover of: The real life of Sebastian Knight

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Published in

New York

Edition Notes

"Originally published by New Directions Publishing Corp., New York, in 1941"--T.p. verso.

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3527.A15 R4 1992, PS3527.A15R4 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
203 p. ;
Number of pages
203

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1566140M
Internet Archive
reallifeofsebast00vlad
ISBN 10
0679727264
LCCN
91050040
OCLC/WorldCat
24246796
Library Thing
5487
Goodreads
262118

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