NABOKOV, Vladimir.

Look at the Harlequins!

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1974.

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"I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances": First edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Look at the Harlequins!

First edition of the final novel published before Nabokov's death. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear and two small closed tears to the spine foot. Dust jacket portrait of Nabokov by Halsman. Jacket design by Robert L. Mitchell.

A fictional autobiography narrated by Vadim Vadimovich N., Look at the Harlequins! tells the story of an almost uncanny biographical likeness to the novel's author, Vladimir Nabokov. Many critics viewed the parallels between the author and his character as a parody, or a way for Nabokov to poke fun at the commonly held public belief that the controversial protagonist of Lolita was also a reflection of the "sexually deviant" author.