Bend Sinister, Paperback

Descriere

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.

Despre autor

Vladimir Nabokov

Romancier rus-american, lepidopterist, profesor (1899–1977)

Vladimir Nabokov a fost un scriitor american de origine rusă. Familia sa aparținea aristocrației și a fost nevoită să emigreze în SUA în timpul revoluției bolșevice.