Transparent things
By: Vladimir Nabokov.
Edition: 1st Vintage international ed.
Series: Vintage international
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Publishers and publishing -- Fiction.; Widowers -- Fiction.
Description: "Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis.