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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 mai. de 2011 · On the face of it, Bend Sinister is an unusual novel. Nabokov, a self-proclaimed politically apathetic writer, writes a novel about the rise of newly formed dictatorship in a fictitious country.
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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.
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Bend Sinister is typically said to be about living in a totalitarian state, and gets compared to Orwell's 1984. It certainly is set under a new totalitarian regime, a bumbling one that reflects Nabokov's opinion that dictatorships are marked by incompetent buffoonery more than by competent evil, and concerns a free man's absolute destruction by ...
16 de fev. 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
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 tyranny of a police state.
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.
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