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 At the same time as family chronicle and love story, it is a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parodic history of the novelesque genre, an erotic novel, a song to pleasure and a vindication of Paradise understood as something that should...

The most overtly political novel Nabokov ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor...

This is Nabokov's penultimate novel, a literary tour de force whose protagonist is Hugh Person, a young North American editor who goes on various trips to Switzerland over the years. It was here that his father travelled to for the last time in his...

The sixty-eight stories by Vladimir Nabokov included in this edition, prepared by his son Dmitri, allow us to enjoy the writer's immeasurable literary virtuosity: his thematic and disturbing ambiguities, his elegant handling of the language and the many places that left a mark on...

Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. / Desesperación es una impagable joya literaria, una originalísima variación sobre el tema del doble en la que la inveterada astucia narrativa de su autor...

Set in Russian emigration in pre-Hitler Germany, the story follows Smurov, a failed suicide, Bolshevik spy, and war hero. In love and homosexual at different times, he lives among an expatriate bourgeoisie. With elements of a mystery novel, the narrative explores shifting identity. Nabokov's...

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. / Habla,...

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special...

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days...

The discovery of chess is for Luzhin the revelation of an order of impeccable harmony in which he takes refuge from his unhappy adolescence and develops a brilliant career as a champion, which will end up becoming a dangerous obsession that absorbs every minute...

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture. / La historia...

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture. / Los adjetivos...

Ganin, a young Russian exiled in Berlin between the wars, dreams of leaving the city while recalling his childhood and adolescence in Russia and his early romance with Mashenka, a desired and idealized woman, a lost love in the past. / Ganin, un joven...

This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and...

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on just about everything. / Pienso como un genio, escribo como...

In Pale Fire, Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue....

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings. /...

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. An elegantly sardonic, irresistibly ironic novel...

Here, in a magical parade that walks through the confused universe of Russian exiles, we see Olga. She's pretty and bored thanks to the cosmic boredom of her suitors; to the bundle of nerves called Romantovski, who is not guilty of anything but invites...

This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight's death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the famous English novelist's life, but he is impeded by the false, the distorted, the...