The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishers (US) Editions Poetry London (UK) |
Publication date | 1941 (US) 1945 (UK) |
| Publication place | Norfolk, Connecticut (US) London, England (UK) |
| Pages | 205 (US) 181 (UK) |
| OCLC | 2381791 |
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is the first English-language novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written from late 1938 to early 1939 in Paris and first published in 1941. A work centred on language and its inability to convey any satisfactory definition, it has been identified as a forerunner of the postmodernist novel.