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The real life of Sebastian Knight / Vladimir Nabokov.
LIBRA - Special PG3476.N3 R28 1968
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 432.
- A New Directions paperbook ; 432
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 205 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : New Directions, [1968]
- Summary:
- On the surface, this is a literary detective story-subtle, intricate, and building to a tantalizing climax. On another level, it has pungent points to make about the role of the artist in a society that is basically hostile to he creative spirit. Going deeper yet, the book probes the essential problem of the ambiguity of human identity: just who was Sebastian Knight?
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1941 by New Directions, copyright renewed 1968 by Vladimir Nabokov ..."
- Introduction by Conrad Brenner (1959).
- The pagination of the Introduction is not compatible with the pagination for the rest of the text.
- "Ninth printing."
- "New Directions books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation ..."
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.
- ISBN:
- 0811206440 :
- 9780811206440
- OCLC:
- 15532876
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