King, Queen, Knave

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.

''Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius'' David Lodge

''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...

• | Author: Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Feb 22, 2001
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780141185774
• | ISBN-10: 0141185775