Bend Sinister
Book description
Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 22 Vladimir Nabokov books, publishing over the coming year, with an elegant new jacket and text design.
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and…
Why read it?
1 author picked Bend Sinister as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I had never read Nabokov before, so this book was my introduction to the alternating concentrated power and playfulness at work here. There is a great, underlying seriousness to this investigation of the evils and individual-crushing machinations of a dystopian, totalitarian State.
At moments the story and prose rushes with an emotionless coldness, only to be re-balanced by the self-sacrificing love of father for son. There is a deep humanity in the book; alongside a terrible and pitiless exposure of the inhumane. The language and storytelling are startlingly original and uncompromising, right from the very beginning.
Krug, and his adversary,…
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