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Lolita
4.990 kr.Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets’. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert’s seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov’s dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.
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Pnín
1.290 kr.Bráðfyndin og óvenjuleg saga um Tímofej Pnín, sérkennilegan og viðutan háskólakennara í Bandaríkjunum á sjötta áratug liðinnar aldar. Pnín, sem er landflótta Rússi, berst við að halda stöðu sinni og virðingu þrátt fyrir ýmsar uppákomur og misskilning. Grátbrosleg og einstök frásögn sem ber rómaðri stílgáfu höfundarins vitni.
Vladimir Nabokov telst til höfuðsnillinga heimsbókmennta á tuttugustu öld. Víðfræg er skáldsaga hans Lolita, sem kom fyrst út í íslenskri þýðingu Árna Óskarssonar fyrir réttum þremur árum. Nú fá lesendur að kynnast annarri og ólíkri hlið á höfundinum.
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Revenge
2.490 kr.‘And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!’
A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here enchants and enraptures us, only to gleefully confound our expectations.