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''Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius'' David Lodge

''Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest'', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. ''If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in'' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - ''he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

King Queen Knave Penguin Modern Classics

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    A Paperback / softback by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/02/2001
      ISBN13: 9780141185774, 978-0141185774
      ISBN10: 0141185775
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius'' David Lodge

      ''Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest'', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. ''If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in'' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - ''he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

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