Look at the Harlequins! (Vzglyani na Arlekinov)

In his last completed novel, 'Look at the Harlequins!' (1974), the great artist addresses the theme of love's mysterious influence on art. With unprecedented passion and wit, in these 'mirror memoirs,' Nabokov accomplishes what no writer has ever dared: he transforms his own biography into fiction, a burlesque, a harlequinade, forcing his hero, Vadim Vadimovich N., to undertake a difficult, life-long journey to find true love, reality, and art at its pinnacle. The edition includes an afterword and detailed notes by the translator, as well as letters from Véra and Vladimir Nabokov about this novel, published in Russian for the first time.