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King, Queen, Jack

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In his second novel, King, Queen, Knave (1928), written in Berlin, Vladimir Nabokov turns to material from German life and, for the first time, undertakes a profound exploration of the psychology of the average person, a subject he later continued in Camera Obscura and Despair. Behind the crime plot and its love triangle lies a masterfully revealed confrontation between two polarized ways of life: the formulaic, soulless, and automatized, and the natural, full-blooded, and creative. In the conventional world of advertisements and fashion magazines, the very consciousness and essence of the young "lady," the book's protagonist, seems to be embodied, while conversely, the daily life and projects of her husband, the wealthy businessman Dreyer—the "king" in the complex game Nabokov plays with the reader—are imbued with unexpected poetry. This edition is supplemented by an episode from the expanded English version of the novel, translated into Russian for the first time.
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