Forfatter fødeår: 1899
"At sige, at man som læser bliver opslugt af bogen, der er mesterligt oversat af Niels Lyngsø, er ikke stærkt nok. Man bliver simpelthen indforskrevet, indrulleret."6 hjerter, Politiken... Læs mere
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, PNIN brought... Læs mere
An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. Written in this writer's... Læs mere