La Verdadera vida de Sebastian Knight

by Vladimir Nabokov

Overview

En apariencia se trata de la simple biografía de un escritor, Sebastian Knight, escrita por su hermanastro V, con la intención de corregir las falsedades vertidas sobre su persona en otra biografía, escrita con tendenciosidad y graves prejuicios intelectuales por el ex agente literario de Sebastian. Como en una novela policíaca, V tratará de hallar la verdad acerca de ese hermano con el que apenas convivió, buscará en sus obras alusiones autobiográficas, se entrevistará con las mujeres que tuvo por amantes y con los testigos que pueden proporcionarle alguna luz. Pero, siempre anticonvencional, Nabokov hará que todas esas tentativas se frustren e irá dejando sucesivamente abiertos todos los interrogantes, pues esta fingida investigación solo pretende delatar la falacia de nuestras certidumbres y recordarnos la radical incognoscibilidad del ser humano.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788433960368
Publisher:	Anagrama
Publication date:	02/28/2019
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Born in Russia, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) had a penchant for writing about the tragic and the taboo in his books, especially the still-controversial Lolita. In 1919, his family left Russia for Western Europe, and eventually settled in the United States. Although his first works were written in Russian, he became famous for his novels like Pale Fire that he wrote in English. Nabokov's erudite, inventive approach to writing — buttressed by his formidable academic and cultural intellect — made him a literary legend.

Date of Birth:

April 23, 1899

Date of Death:

July 2, 1977

Place of Birth:

St. Petersburg, Russia

Place of Death:

Montreux, Switzerland

Education:

Trinity College, Cambridge, 1922