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Bend Sinister is a dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 1945 and 1946, and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947. It was Nabokov's eleventh novel and his second written in English.
In Bend Sinister, people's hearts still beat, and compassion is stealthily exchanged while fear, servility, and plain profit conquer the souls of the weak. Adam Krug represents everything the new regime, impersonated by Adam Krug's ex-classmate, Paduk, hates: freethinking and unconditional love; a firmness of a giant bull that, even in the ...
Bend Sinister, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1947. It is the second novel that the Russian-born author wrote in English. It tells the story of Adam Krug, a philosopher who disregards his country’s totalitarian regime until his son David is killed by the forces he has attempted to.
14 de abr. de 1990 · Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
16 de feb. de 2011 · The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and...
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.
1 de oct. de 2011 · An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale.
