The eye
By: by Vladimir Nabokov. [Translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author.
Edition: 1st ed.]
Publisher: Phaedra
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 114
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of Sogli͡a︡dataĭ (transliterated)