Transparent things
Subtitle: a novel
By: [by] Vladimir Nabokov.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1972
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 [American] publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R. [an eccentric author], 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.