Description
A gifted writer’s sudden disappearance leaves behind a puzzling legacy: a biography that seems to promise answers while quietly undermining them. As the narrator reconstructs the life of Sebastian Knight, the story turns into a labyrinth of memory, authorship, and the uneasy boundaries between truth and invention. At its center are love relationships with two strikingly different women—each illuminating a different facet of Sebastian’s character, and each raising questions about why he refuses to be fully known. With Nabokov’s signature precision, wit, and psychological acuity, the novel explores identity, artistic control, and the strange, self-contradicting ways we try to make a life cohere.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
Published Mar 29, 2001
192 pages
ISBN: 9780141185996
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Details
First Published
1941
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov.