“Nabokov's prose is style mesmerises as usual, but I found the plot/pace kind of off. I would have given this 4 stars but the last 30 to 50 pages just felt rushed and uninspired (yes, all the walls in my glass house have already been shattered by my throws). Ostensibly a tale about an independent-minded philosophy professor (Krug), who having just lost his wife, runs up against a communist rising lead by his former schoolmate. Krug holds on to his principles in opposition to the state to the point that he loses what he personally holds most dear. It felt like Nabokov was trying to do too much at once or not enough in such a relatively small set of pages (217).”
mmolino54 wrote this review Tuesday, January 17, 2012.
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