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"In a nameless East European nation, Krug, a philosophy professor in his 40s, has lost his wife in surgery just as a revolution has brought a repressive dictatorship to power. The revolutionary tyrant, Paduk, a childhood schoolmate of Krug's, needs the academic star's blessing to help legitimize his power grab, and starts having his men arrest and eliminate the people around the professor, up to and including Krug's 8-year-old son David, in order to force it. Published in 1947, this was the first novel Nabokov wrote in America after his escape from Europe, and the pidgin German and Russian words sprinkled throughout it support his indictment of those recent (and all) totalitarian regimes. But it also has plenty of his familiar narrative self-consciousness and word games; for example, Nabokov inserts several mock analyses of "Hamlet" into the story."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
War/Revolt/Disaster on civilians
Yes
Conflict:
- Revolution, general
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- scholar
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- politician/elected ruler
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
Amount of dialog
- little dialog
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