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The true life of Sebastian Knight.

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"The True Life of Sevastian Knight" is Vladimir Nabokov's first English-language novel, completed in Paris in 1939 and published in the United States two years later. Its labyrinthine structure and quasi-detective plot predetermined the originality of Nabokov's subsequent prose - "Lolita", "Pale Fire", "Ada" and especially his last completed book "Look at the Harlequins!". The narrator, identified only by the initial V., reconstructs the life story of his own half-brother, the late writer Sebastian Knight, using memoirs, oral histories, and excerpts from his books. Slipping away from W.'s persistent search, Knight's true life proves to be directly connected to the mystery of his name, to his writings, to the laws of verbal art, and to Nabokov's metaphysics. This edition of the novel is accompanied by a preface, notes, and a final essay by the translator. The orthography, punctuation, and transliteration of the translator have been preserved.
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