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The Eye
Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities...more
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This book is, as a work of prose, nonexistant when compared to Lolita. However, it still presents an interesting subject (a man who, after killing himself, finds himself in an illusion of living - to put it simply) in a sort of dry, existentialist tone which may appeal to some readers.
"Often, as I trudged home, my cigarette case empty, my face burning in the auroral breeze as if I had just removed theatrical makeup, every step sending a throb of pain echoing through my head, I would inspect my puny little bliss from this side and that, and marvel, and pity myself, and feel despondent and afraid. The summit of lovemaking was for me but a bleak knoll with a relentless view."
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