King, Queen, Knave (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Dmitri Nabokov (Translator), Dmitri Nabokov (Translator), Vladimir Nabokov (Author)

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  'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave . Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there'.