VLADIMIR NABOKOV—King Queen Knave—”This bright brute is my gayest novel”—1st HC
AndNABOKOV ’s jeering aloofness, though morally offensive, does, alas, have its own curious esthetic power…. And if, by the highest standards, they prove an inadequate substitute, it would be churlish not to admit that NABOKOV makes the very most of them.