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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel in English, was completed in Paris in 1938, fi

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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

Tagged: Impression, Failures, Personality

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

Tagged: Ocean, Seeing The Big Picture, Why Macro Perspectives Are Useful, Focus Means Something Else Is Out of Focus, Big Picture