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About the product In his second novel, published in Berlin in 1928, Nabokov departs from the biographical and nostalgic tones of «Mashenka» and gives free rein to fantasy. It is «King, Queen, Jack» that marks the birth of the writer Nabokov (who is still writing under the pseudonym V. Sirin), who will soon conquer first Europe and then America. The plot, as if taken from a low-quality tabloid novel, is just a cover for a sophisticated game with the reader. His heroes are the most common ones that can be found, for example, in a train carriage. There, in fact, the reader gets to know them, as if by chance he stared at this trinity. A rich husband, a mercantile wife and a poor relative. Naturally, according to the rules of a tabloid love story, both men are in love with the same woman. Through this banal love triangle, Nabokov, as if through a prism, examines all the basic fears, aspirations, sexual complexes and intellectual aspirations of a person at the beginning of the XX century, who in fact is not too different from a person at the beginning of the XXI century. Abstract An elderly wealthy businessman Kurt Dreyer is sincerely in love with his wife Martha, a young beauty with a serious face and cold eyes. He is absolutely sure that she reciprocates him, but in fact Martha is only interested in his money. Returning with his wife from Tyrol to his native Berlin, Dreyer calls in to his cousin and promises to «attach» her son Franz. In Berlin, he tries in every possible way to be a caring and sympathetic «uncle». At the same time, a poor provincial youth immediately falls in love with the luxurious Martha, and she decides to use him to achieve her goals. Following the classic plot of a tabloid love story, Nabokov creates a complex psychological, social and philosophical work. …
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