Sergey Nabokov'un Gerçekdışı Yaşamı

1943 Berlin. While the city is shaken by bombardments, Sergey Nabokov, the brother of the famous writer Vladimir Nabokov, attempts to record his extraordinary life, with the concern that the Gestapo, who took away the greatest love of his life, may knock on his door at any moment: His childhood years, free from reality, in Russia, counting the days for the revolution; The first steps taken towards becoming oneself and someone else at Cambridge University; Bittersweet drifts within the bohemian art circle of Paris, where exiles live... and encounters with important names: Stravinsky, Cocteau, Picasso, Gertrude Stein... But most importantly, the other Nabokov, whom he always follows wherever he goes and whom he cannot get out of his mind: His talent. , his "twin", overshadowed by his fame and success.

Sergey Nabokov's Unreal Life is written in an elegant style that shows on every page that it has been meticulously researched, about homeland and exile, art and life, brothers and their shadows. It makes for a thrilling reading experience.

My most depressing memories are of Paris, and I felt a tremendous sense of relief to leave, but I'm sorry that my brother had to stammer to express his bewilderment to an unfeeling doorman. I don't know much about his life during the war. For a while, he worked as a translator in an office in Berlin. Being an honest and fearless man, he criticized the regime in front of his colleagues; They also reported my brother. He was arrested, accused of being a "British spy" and sent to a concentration camp in Hamburg, where he died from lack of food on January 10, 1945. All his life, he desperately demanded something - compassion, understanding, or whatever it was - realizing this situation now does not change or compensate for anything anymore.
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1967
(Introduction From the Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 410

Print Year: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications

Prepared for Publication: Başak Güntekin

First Printing Year: 2014

Number of Pages: 410

Language: Turkish