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The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he 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 Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
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Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
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- Released
- 1990
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- Title
- Bend Sinister
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0679727272
- ISBN13
- 9780679727279
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, American Literature, Russia, Dystopia, Literary Fiction, Russian Literature
- First published
- 1947
- Original title
- Bend Sinister
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he 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 Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.