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Look at the Harlequins!

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Look at the Harlequins! is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1974. The work was Nabokov’s final published novel before his death in 1977. Look At the Harlequins! is a fictional autobiography narrated by Vadim Vadimovich N. , a Russian-American writer with uncanny biographical likenesses to the novel’s author, Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov. VV is born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and raised by his aunt, who advises him to look at the harlequins Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!. After the revolution, VV moves to Western Europe. Count Nikifor Nikodimovich Starov become his patron (is he VV’s father?). VV meets Iris Black who becomes his first wife. After her death – she is killed by a Russian émigré – he marries Annette (Anna Ivanovna Blagovo), his long-necked typist. They have a daughter, Isabel, and emigrate to the United States. The marriage fails; and, after Annette’s death, VV takes care of the pubescent Isabel, now known as Bel. They travel from motel to motel. To counter ugly rumors, VV marries Louise Adamson while Bel elopes with an American to Soviet Russia. After the third marriage fails, VV marries again, a Bel look-a-like (same birthdate, too), referred to as you, his final love. Literary criticism has weighed in on both sides of this debate, some even claiming that Vadim is both a parody and a double (or Doppelgänger) of Nabokov. For example, Nabokov’s Lolita is acted out by the narrator of Look at the Harlequins! through his fondling of the nymphet Dolly VonBorg. The attribution to a string of wives to the narrator must be understood in the context of Nabokov’s After the publication of Lolita the wider public and many critics thought that its author must be some sexual daredevilWith the serial polygamy related in Look At The Harlequins!, Nabokov can be seen to be poking fun at these perceptions.