Look at the Harlequins!

Kirjan Look at the Harlequins! (1990) on kirjoittanut Vladimir Nabokov. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 272 sivua ja se on nidottu.

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian migr who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness. - "Good farce throbbing with his well-known obsessions. " -V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review 'Look at the harlequins . .. Play Invent the world Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US. Now dying, he reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist, and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre illness, 'numerical nimbus syndrome'.