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Transparent Things

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Author Vladimir Nabokov
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Oct 23, 1989 | 128 Pages | 978-0-679-72541-1
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"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero, Hugh Person, to Switzerland...As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., but falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride...Eight years later...Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis
Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. View titles by Vladimir Nabokov

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"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero, Hugh Person, to Switzerland...As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., but falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride...Eight years later...Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis

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Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. View titles by Vladimir Nabokov

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