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The real life of Sebastian Knight / Vladimir Nabokov

A narrator attempts to reconstruct the life of his deceased half-brother, a novelist, through interviews and literary analysis. This investigative narrative explores the challenges of biographical truth and the inherent mystery of human identity.

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