Korolʹ, dama, valet

About “Korolʹ, dama, valet”

King, Queen, Knave is the second novel Vladimir Nabokov wrote while living in Berlin and staying at Baltic resorts, composed in 1927-8. It was published in Russian as Korol, dama, valet in October 1928, later translated into German by Siegfried von Vegesack, and into English forty years later by Nabokov's son Dmitri with significant authorial changes. A loosely based film adaptation followed in 1972. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)