The Eye

Synopsis

Nabokov's fourth novel, the eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious russian émigré living in prewar berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.