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''He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language'' Anthony Burgess

''Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality''.

This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre ''numerical nimbus syndrome''.



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Look at the Harlequins Penguin Modern Classics

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 27 June 1991
      ISBN-13 9780141198033
      978-0141198033
      ISBN-10 0141198036
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Vladimir Nabokov

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language'' Anthony Burgess

      ''Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality''.

      This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre ''numerical nimbus syndrome''.



      Trade Review
      'He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language'

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