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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabakov

New Introduction by Michael Dirda

"How uncompromisingly, how brilliantly real Nabokov's story is." --The New York Times Book Review

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel in English, tells the story of the author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight's death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the famous English novelist's life, but he is impeded by the false, the distorted, the irreverent. It is a story that highlights the role of the artist in a society basically hostile to the creative spirit, as well as one that probes the essential problem of the ambiguity of human identity: Just who was Sebastian Knight?

Date of publication: July 2008