King Queen Knave (Penguin Modern Classics)
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780141185774
Brand
Penguin
Author
Nabokov
Producer
Penguin Group
Weight
306 gr
Pages
288
Year of production
2011
"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".