King, Queen, Knave
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9780141185774
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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...
ISBN: 9780141185774
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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...
