Nabokov's Dozen

Resumen del libro

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen.

In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, these stories sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas (Barcelona, 1939) es profesor investigador de Literatura Española y Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Westmins ter de Londres, ciudad en la que reside desde hace más de treinta años. Además de su recono cida faceta de crítico literario en España y Améri ca Latina, ha traducido, entre otros, a Cesare Pa vese, Djuna Barnes, Carson McCullers y Robert Coover, es autor de la antología de cuentos espa ñoles contemporáneos x{0026}lt;em The Origins of Desirex{0026}lt;/em (Londres, 1993) y de las colecciones de poemas x{0026}lt;em El jardín aciagox{0026}lt;/em (Premio Carlos Ortiz, Barcelona, 1985), x{0026}lt;em La casa de la malezax{0026}lt;/em (Barcelona, 1992), x{0026}lt;em En el bosque de Celiax{0026}lt;/em (Altea, 1995; México, 1998), y x{0026}lt;em Los espejos del marx{0026}lt;/em (Tenerife, 1998).x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Foto Alina López Cámarax{0026}lt;/p