Anneke van Huisseling Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

'He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language' Anthony Burgess 'Look at the harlequins . . . Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'numerical nimbus syndrome'. The final novel published before Nabokov's death, Look at the Harlequins! playfully blends sly self-parody, recollection, riddles and jokes, in an exuberant unravelling of the mysteries of memory and the act of creation.

De ervaringen van een Engelse vrouw, getrouwd met een Duitse advocaat, in het Duitsland van Hitler.

Focuses on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College, a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s. This work treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the centre of their lives.