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The Eye
The Eye | Vladimir Nabokov
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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 migr living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Mahmoud
The Eye | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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A good view of smorov.

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Graywacke
The Eye | Vladimir Nabokov
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Nabokov‘s 4th novel was short one about sneakily watching your own closest friends. It was actually good fun. Playful, maybe a touch of Dostoyevsky‘s unstable narrator‘s, but gentler and with a twist.

GingerAntics That is a very creepy book cover. 5y
Tanisha_A I am reading Lolita right now, and the writing is just brilliant! 5y
Graywacke @GingerAntics completely agree 5y
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Graywacke @Tanisha_A it‘s been interesting reading his early novels. They definitely aren‘t brilliant. They‘re limited, with highlights. But each is doing a different thing, trying out something, in a sense. This was the best crafted, so far. I should get to Lolita in ...January 😁 5y
GingerAntics It‘s really wigging me out. Where is this person‘s nose? I mean, I know where it should be, but it‘s just not. 5y
batsy @Tanisha_A I thought the writing was superb, too 🙌🏽 5y
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Ammar25
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A novella by a master.The tale of the Russian Emigre Smurov. A hero who departs the world and enters the realm of fantasy and imagination. We see him through the eyes of others, his identity ever shifting with a cast of emigres, secret agents, bankers, politicians, and various lovers.

This is Nabokov 4th novel written in 1930 and translated to English in 1965.

This novella contains that crisp prose that one finds later in Lolita and Pale Fire.