King, Queen, Knave

Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov

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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 here and there...


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780141185774
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin
  • : May 2001
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Vladimir Nabokov
  • : BC
  • : 105