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  1. King, Queen, Knave is the second novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin) while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic.

  2. King, Queen, Knave: Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. With David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf. Adopted by his rich uncle from Germany, British teenager Frank falls in-love with his uncle's Italian wife Martha, and has conflicting feelings when she suggests he should kill his uncle in order to have her and the family ...

  3. King, Queen, Knave is a 1972 West German comedy film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.

  4. Three playing cards: King, Queen, Knave – a man, his wife and her lover – it’s a classical love triangle… The queen keeps her great expectations… With a vague resentment, she recalled that her sister had already had at least four or five lovers in succession, and that Willy Wald’s young wife had had two simultaneously.

  5. King, Queen, Knave, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in Russian in 1928 as Korol, dama, valet. With this novel Nabokov began his career-long obsession with gamesmanship, wordplay in several languages, and multiple surreal images and characterizations.

  6. Jul 30, 2023 · As an early divergence from modernism, and as an inspired parody of genre fiction, King, Queen, Knave forecasts the great English-language novels of Nabokovs maturity: Lolita (1955), Pale Fire (1962), and Ada (1969). Nabokov wrote in Russian until 1940.

  7. Apr 18, 2020 · King, Queen, Knave (1972) 2.7. ( 12) On the death of his parents, Frank, a romantic teenager, moves in with his aunt and uncle He quickly falls in love with his beautiful, sophisticated aunt, Martha, and begins to fantasize about her.