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The Eye

Vladimir Nabokov

  • 112 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1965
  • 30 editions
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1 About this book

Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian emigre living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.

  • Motivation (Psychology)
  • Russian language books
  • Foreign countries
  • Slavic philology
  • Russians

2 About Vladimir Nabokov

1899–1977

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife, Véra Nabokov (née Slonim).

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