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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.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

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    A Paperback / softback by Vladimir Nabokov, John Lanchester

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 29 March 2001
      ISBN-13 9780141185996
      978-0141185996
      ISBN-10 0141185996
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Vladimir Nabokov

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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