The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
7 hrs. 56 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator
Ivan Bukchin
Narrator
Ivan Bukchin
Description
“The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” is a mystery, a pseudo-detective story. It’s a metanovel full of cryptograms and anagrams—so loved by Nabokov. The narrator, some V., sets out to write a biography of his late half-brother, the recently deceased writer Sebastian Knight. But to do that, V. must solve the mystery of his brother’s life and death. The narrator finds a few clues in the writer’s personal papers, and then begins to look for answers in his novels—going deeper and deeper into Knight’s texts in search of answers, wandering so far into the narrative that you can’t quite tell anymore: Is it V. who is writing about Knight, or is Knight writing about V.? In his book, Nabokov combines a breathtaking detective story with high-art intellectual prose. He leads the reader toward an exit—only to push them into the next labyrinth—revealing a solution that calls into question the very existence of the hero, and along with him, the existence of the narrator himself.
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