Vladimir Nabokov

Glory is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov between 1930 and 1932 and first published in Paris. The novel has been seen by some critics as a kind of fictional dress-run-through of the author's famous memoir Speak, Memory. Its Swiss-Russian hero, Martin Edelweiss, shares a number of experiences and sensations …

Geheugen, spreek is een autobiografie van de Russisch-Amerikaanse Vladimir Nabokov, in 1951 voor het eerst als boek verschenen in het Engels; diverse van de vijftien hoofdstukken uit het boek verschenen eerder reeds afzonderlijk, veelal in het Russisch, in diverse tijdschriften. De Russische editie verscheen in 1954 …

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 characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the …