内容简介
'Lookattheharlequins...Play!Inventtheworld!Inventreality'.ThisisthechildhoodadvicegivenbyanaunttoRussianbornwriterVadimVadimovich,whoemigratestoEngland,thenParis,thenGermanyandthentheUS,and,nowdying,reconstructshispast.HeremembersIrishisfirstwife,Annettehislong-neckedtypistandBelhisdaughter,aswellashisownbizarre'numericalnimbussyndrome'.
作者简介
VladimirNabokov(1899-1977)wasborninStPetersburg.HewrotehisfirstliteraryworksinRussian,butrosetointernationalprominenceasamasterlyprosestylistforthenovelshecomposedinEnglish,mostfamously,Lolita.Between1923and1940hepublishednovels,shortstories,plays,poemsandtranslationsintheRussianlanguageandestablishedhimselfasoneofthemostoutstandingRussianémigréwriters.