Transparent Things (Penguin Modern Classics) - Hardcover

Vladimir Nabokov

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141197145 ISBN 13: 9780141197142

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2012

Synopsis

The darkly comic 'Transparent Things', one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"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 NY 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 the Author:

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141197145
• ISBN 13: 9780141197142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112