Description - King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
Brimming with wordplay, games and curious characters - including an eccentric inventor of robotic 'automannequins' - King, Queen, Knave is a sensual and surprising black comedy
'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...
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