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    Quick Guide: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
    Quick Guide: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
    Quick Guide: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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    Quick Guide: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

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    A layman or a casual reader may not find it easy to follow the story because the narration is not chronological and the narrator V. frequently digresses from the main story.

    “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” is a challenging book that needs a readers’ complete involvement. The format of the book makes it highly readable, even addictive, but the mind boggling details and layer after layer of narration need more than simple comprehension from a common reader.

    It is a complex story which requires continuous page turning. The characteristics of highbrow literature are quite evident in the novel. The book “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight’ is suitable for both classroom and beach house.

    Quick Guide: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
    Copyright
    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Summary
    Chapter Three: Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateApr 20, 2014
    ISBN9781311862853
    Quick Guide: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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      Chapter One: Introduction

      The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in 1941. It was the author’s first English novel. Before this novel, his all other works had been published in Russian language. The writing of the novel had taken place between late 1938 and early 1939.

      The idea of this huge English novel occurred to Nabokov in Paris while he was sitting in his bathroom, with his valise set across a bidet as a writing desk. To write the novel he retreated into the washroom.

      The book can also be named as a fictional biography of a fictional author, Sebastian Knight.

      Some critics point out that The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a research novel itself. The novel explores the identity and life of the title character.

      The author has deliberately blurred fact and fiction. He has very carefully created a biography of a fictional character. The themes and genres have been layered, thus forming a kind of prism that shows different light depending on the point of view of the readers.

      Chapter Two: Plot Summary

      V, the narrator of the novel, is busy composing his first literary work. He is writing a biography of his half-brother the famous English novelist, Sebastian Knight who was born in Russia.

      During his research, the narrator reaches Cambridge and meets Sebastian’s acquaintances. He interviews Sebastian’s friends and acquaintances. He also meets Helen Pratt and P. G. Sheldon, the famous painter Roy Carswell, and the poet Alexis Pan.

      V. the narrator of the novel reads the books written by Sebastian and reviews them. It transpires that Knight’s former secretary, Mr. Goodman, had also written a misleading biography of Sebastian. V. tries to refute the views presented by Mr. Goodman in the biography he has written. The biography written by Mr. Goodman is titled The Tragedy of Sebastian Knight.

      According to Mr. Goodman, Sebastian Knight was actually very far from the real life. This stand is firmly maintained by Mr. Goodman.

      The narrator writes his conclusion. He writes that Sebastian Knight had a long-running relationship

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