Transparent Things

Vladimir Nabokov — 1989

Probes the mind of a man whose unconscious sexual and destructive obsessions drive him to strangle his wife and escape into the Europe of his past

Reviews

Jacque@jacque_who

Jul 19, 2024

Picked this up thinking that it would be a quick afternoon read, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. A very poetic, detailed, and disorienting 100 pages. Straightforward, usual Nabokov plot with super fascinating thematic styling.

SR@imnotserge

Mar 6, 2022

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech @giovannigf

Feb 9, 2022