![]() ![]() The story begins with the protagonist, Adam Krug, who had just lost his wife to an unsuccessful surgery. This book takes place in a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages the idea of anyone being different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in society. In a 1963 edition of the book, Nabokov explains that "this choice of a title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life." In the novel, Nabokov often uses word-play concerning leftward (or "sinister") movements. To a viewer facing the shield the appearances will be reversed, \ and / respectively. ![]() In heraldry, a standard " bend" is a diagonal band from the upper dexter to the lower sinister (that is, from the upper right of the coat of arms' bearer to his lower left) and a " bend sinister" is its left-handed reverse. It was Nabokov's eleventh novel and his second written in English. ![]() Bend Sinister is a dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 19, and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947. ![]()
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