Name: El ojo (in Spanish)
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9788433966278

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher

ANAGRAMA

Topic

narrativa en castellano

Collection

COMPACTOS

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12 cm

ISBN

8433966278

ISBN13

9788433966278

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El ojo (in Spanish)"

Una extraña historia situada en el ambiente típico de las primeras novelas de Nabokov, el universo cerrado de la emigración rusa en la Alemania prehitleriana. En medio de esta burguesía ilustrada y expatriada, Smurov, el protagonista de la historia y suicida frustrado, es unas veces espía bolchevique y otras héroe de la guerra civil; enamorado sin fortuna un día y homosexual al día siguiente. De modo que, sobre una base de novela de misterio (en la que sobresalen dos escenas memorables, excelsamente nabokovianas: la del librero Weinstock invocando a los espíritus de Mahoma, César, Pushkin y Lenin, y el desgarrador y sospechoso relato de Smurov acerca de su huida de Rusia), Nabokov constituye una narración que va mucho más lejos, porque el enigma a desvelar es el de una identidad capaz de mudar de color con la misma frecuencia que un camaleón. Orgía de la confusión, baile de las identidades, celebración del guiño, "El ojo" es una inquietante y deliciosa novela corta de Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg into an aristocratic family in 1899, but his family background first, and later his personal interests, took him to Germany, England, France, and the United States, where he began a brilliant career as a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, while teaching Literature at several prestigious universities. His novels Mary (1926), King, Queen, Knave (1928), The Defense (1930), Glory (1932), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Despair and The Gift (both from 1934), Invitation to a Beheading (1938), The Eye (1937), The Enchanter (1939), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Ultima Thule (1942) preceded the monumental success of Lolita (1955) which allowed him to leave teaching and fully dedicate himself to his writing vocation. Later came Pnin (1957), Pale Fire (1962), Ada or Ardor (1969), Transparent Things (1972), Look at the Harlequins! (1974). Among his non-fiction works, his autobiography Speak, Memory (1951) and literary essays such as Nikolai Gogol (1944) or his courses on European literature, on Don Quixote or on Russian literature stand out. In 1961, he moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1977. In 2009, his son Dmitri agreed to the publication of his unfinished novel, The Original of Laura.

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