What a wonderful piece of literature. For his first English novel, he did a fantastic job building his prose around the death of a writer. Everything in this book flows beautifully and every single line is well thought out and greatly coordinated. Great care was taken to make the reader be beside the main character of this story, as if you were following him through his journey to find out more about his brother (Sebastian Knight) and seeing him fit pieces of the puzzle that is his life. The wit is immense and hilariously funny, the ending being one of wit and of sadness. A must read, I highly recommend it.

 

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"Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first -a dull man writing broken English, the second -a broken man writing dull English"

 

I recently read this book and loved it!

 

I recently read Pale Fire and totally fell in love but it also took me a bit to read cause of how dense it was… Do you reckon The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is tougher or lighter?

 

Pale Fire is about as dense as it gets–it's certainly produced the most voluminous set of mildly deranged, mildly genius commentary from online Nabokov fans, if that's any indicator.



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