King, Queen, Knave Av Vladimir Nabokov

<p><b>''Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius'' David Lodge</b><br><br>''Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest'', Nabokov wrote of <i>King,</i><i>Queen, Knave.</i> Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. ''If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in'' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - ''he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...</p>