Bend Sinister - Brossura

Nabokov, Vladimir

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141185767 ISBN 13: 9780141185767

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2001

Riassunto

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk - known as the 'Toad'. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk's activities and sees no threat in them. But the sinister machine which Paduk has set in motion may prove stronger than the individual, stronger even than the grotesque 'Toad' himself.

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L'autore:

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141185767
• ISBN 13: 9780141185767
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192