The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

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ISBN9780141185996
AuthorsVladimir Nabokov
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
FormatPaperback
Number of pages192
Weight (kg)0.150
Publishing Date29/03/2001
Price (excl. tax)€15.09
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Price (incl. tax)€16.00
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Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman (''his slapdash and very misleading book''), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight''s life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and digs, Sebastian''s erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever.

Nabokov''s first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.