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About this book
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 emigre living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.
Subjects
- character types - fiction
- conflicts - fiction
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction
- foreign countries
- love & relationships - fiction
- motivations - fiction
- occupations - fiction
- politics & social issues - fiction
- russian fiction
- russian language books
- russians
- slavic philology