Wednesday, June 24, 2026

“He saw David”

Adam Krug, philosopher, thinks of his eight-year-old son David.

Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister (1947).

In a 1964 introduction to the novel, Nabokov writes that “it is for the sake of the pages about David and his father that the book was written and should be read.”

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