Our narrator, V., has a strong antipathy to a Mr. Goodman, his half-brother’s secretary, who has already written a biography, The Tragedy of Sebastian Knight, a “slapdash and very misleading book” that makes no mention of V. Watch what happens with Mr. Goodman’s name in these paragraphs.
Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941).
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Friday, July 9, 2021
Mr. Goodman
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