Transparent Things – Valimir Nabokov

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Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero – sullen, gawky Hugh Person – to Switzerland… As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride… Eight years later – following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment – Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past… The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects.” Martin Amis (less)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, London, 1973. Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket fair, covered in a protective easily removable cellophane, no sticky tape. pp 104. Original publisher’s red cloth lettered gilt at the spine. See OUR OWN picture for quality control