Look at the Harlequins!

In his latest completed novel Look at the Harlequins! 1974, the author of Ada, Lolita, and others addresses the theme of the mysterious influence of love on art. With unprecedented enthusiasm and wit in his mirrored memoirs, Nabokov transforms his own biography into fiction, burlesque, and harlequinade, sending his hero, the famous Russian-American writer Vadim Vadimovich N., on a long and arduous journey, promising him at the end of his life the attainment of true love, reality, and happiness. The novel is published in a translation by Andrei Babikov and is accompanied by an afterword, comments, and additional materials illuminating the history of its creation.