The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov
The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov
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The Eye

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrator: Fred Stella

Unabridged: 2 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2011

Synopsis

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. Smurov, a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife as he searches for proof of his existence among fellow émigrés who are too distracted to pay him any heed.“Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” —John Updike

About Vladimir Nabokov

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on November 21, 2022

The Eye – the shortest novel by Vladimir Nabokov – is the most enigmatic and ironic extravaganza… It reads literally as a chronicle of an afterlife… The narrator – an émigré, a vacuous and gutless failure working as a house tutor in a Russian family – is seduced by a married woman… After a month her h......more

Goodreads review by Φώτης on May 28, 2020

Μολονότι ως πρώιμο δείγμα γραφής δεν αγγίζει το μεγαλείο του ύστερου Ναμπόκοφ, το «Μάτι» είναι απόλυτα εναρμονισμένο με τον βασικό κορμό του έργου του συγγραφέα. Κοντολογίς, πιστό στην ξεχωριστή οπτική του, η οποία αντιμετώπιζε τη σύνθεση μυθιστορημάτων ως γρίφους, κάτοπτρα στημένα με ευφυή τρόπο ώσ......more

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