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King, Queen, Knave

Vladimir Nabokov

Paperback | Pages: 275 pages

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Title	:	King, Queen, Knave
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 275 pages
Published	:	2010 by Penguin Books (first published 1928)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Novels

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'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set up here and there'.

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Original Title:	Король, дама, валет
Edition Language:	English

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I thought KQK was great; it's amazing that between 1926 and 1928 (between the publications of KQK and Mary), Nabokov became so much stronger as a writer. The plot of this novel isn't all that complicated, so most of the beauty lies in Nabokov's rich, almost visceral descriptions (the first couple of chapters particularly fucked me up). And I'm always impressed by the unraveling of threads and the infinity of realities that Nabokov manages to create. More of a 4.5/5, with my one quibble being

I'm definitely not an objective judge concerning Nabokov--the man was an absolute genius and a hero of sorts for me--but I'll give a short review anyway. I think this would be a really good book for someone who isn't familiar with Nabokov, or at least predisposed to like his oeuvre. It's about as straight-forward as Nabokov gets, and it's extremely funny, perhaps the funniest book I've read from him (I've read almost all of his work now). He builds up the tension in a way that evokes Lolita or

Lately, I've asked people who they think are the best wordsmiths in the English language. While some people can answer that question in a heartbeat, others turn into a puddle of contemplation. My answers for the last year has been: Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Nabokov. In every work I've read by these writers, they continually astound me with their ability to string a shocking sentence together. Every work of theirs seems innovative and full of color; it's like taking a bite into a

Lately, I've asked people who they think are the best wordsmiths in the English language. While some people can answer that question in a heartbeat, others turn into a puddle of contemplation. My answers for the last year has been: Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Nabokov. In every work I've read by these writers, they continually astound me with their ability to string a shocking sentence together. Every work of theirs seems innovative and full of color; it's like taking a bite into a

Maybe it's chauvinistic provincialism on my part, but I find Nabokov less interesting when his stories take place in foreign countries. I just didn't find this novel as enjoyable as his later American books. Maybe the humor doesn't travel well, but there were times when this book was a slog to get through.

What kind of car I drive, the girls I used to date, personal hygiene: these are all things for which Ive never really had high standards. A book by Vladimir Nabokov, now thats a different story. For a good portion of my reading, I was seriously considering giving this a mere two stars. It takes way too long for the plot to developbecause of this the pacing is off and parts are simply boringand one can really see the artist behind the book. By that I mean that some of Nabokovs brushstrokes are a

The deliberate flattening of the characters in King, Queen, Knave undermines the credibility of the book's love triangle as if the text was, reflexively, mocking its own form.Martha, a brittle ice-queen who lives in an austere villa in Berlin, does not love her husband, Dreyer, and seems incapable of loving anyone. As the flat card-like character she is, however, Martha, the "queen" enjoys the power to manipulate others. Martha views Franz, her nephew through marriage, as a pawn, and reflects