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Bend Sinister is a dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 1945 and 1946, and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947. It was Nabokov's eleventh novel and his second written in English.
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- 1947
31 de may. de 2011 · Bend Sinister is a wonderfully snarky farce, full of language games, self-referential hijinks, and inventive narrative tricks. Nabokov plays mean-spirited god over his characters, pushing them about the page towards their awful fates; but in spite of all of his authorial bravado, a fraying blanket of tenderness swaddles the narrative ...
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- Vladimir Nabokov
Bend Sinister, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1947. It is the second novel that the Russian-born author wrote in English. It tells the story of Adam Krug, a philosopher who disregards his country’s totalitarian regime until his son David is killed by the forces he has attempted to ignore.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nabokov’s nuanced dystopian novel follows eminent philosopher Krug. A classmate from his school days has risen to political power with the ‘Party of the Average Man’. Krug wants nothing to do with this totalitarian/utopian regime, yet he is pursued by its leader.
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16 de feb. de 2011 · The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and...
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
- 0307787885, 9780307787880
- Bend SinisterVintage International
Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
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