The Eye - Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov (Translator) torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Classic Classics Humor Mystery Thriller Vladimir Nabokov

Written by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov (Translator)
Read by Fred Stella
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Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov’s protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, who takes his own life after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife. The action of the novel largely begins after the attempted (perhaps successful) suicide of the protagonist. This occurs after he suffers a beating at the hands of a cuckolded husband. After his supposed death, and assuming everything in the world around him to be a manifestation of his ‘leftover’ imagination, his “eye” observes a group of Russian émigrés as he tries to ascertain their opinions of the character Smurov, around whom much uncertainty and suspicion exists.