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Transparent Things

By Vladimir Nabokov

By Vladimir Nabokov

By Vladimir Nabokov

By Vladimir Nabokov

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $14.00

Oct 23, 1989 | ISBN 9780679725411

Ebook $9.99

Feb 16, 2011 | ISBN 9780307787323

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    About Transparent Things

    “Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero–sullen, gawky Hugh Person–to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NewYork with his bride. . . . Eight years later–following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment–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

    About Transparent Things

    “Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero–sullen, gawky Hugh Person–to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NewYork with his bride. . . . Eight years later–following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment–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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    About Vladimir Nabokov

    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),… More about Vladimir Nabokov

    About Vladimir Nabokov

    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),… More about Vladimir Nabokov

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 23, 1989 | 128 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679725411

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 16, 2011 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9780307787323
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    Praise

    “As casual, as unpredictable, as eccentric and as daunting as Mr. Nabokov’s genius.” -Mavis Gallant, The New York Times Book Review

    “The final effect is both chill and comic, the transparencies both beautiful and terrifying.” —The Times (London)

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