Bend Sinister (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Surrealism
- Time of Work: The first half of the twentieth century
- Setting: An unnamed European country
- Genres: Long fiction, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Mental illness, Oppression, Soldiers, Totalitarianism
- Locales: Europe
Characters Discussed
Adam Krug (krewg), a world-famous philosopher living in a small Eastern European country where the language is a blend of Germanic and Slavic roots. A portly, arrogant man, forty years old, Krug is contemptuous of those with lesser intellectual powers. Not interested in politics, he assumes, rather naïvely, that he has nothing to fear from the Ekwilists, who have taken over his country and instituted a police state. In a benumbed state of mind because of the recent death of his wife, he vacillates, postponing his departure abroad. His colleagues at the...
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