The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫，纳博科夫是二十世纪公认的杰出小说家和文体家。

一八九九年四月二十三日，纳博科夫出生于圣彼得堡。布尔什维克革命期间，纳博科夫随全家于一九一九年流亡德国。他在剑桥三一学院攻读法国和俄罗斯文学后，开始了在柏林和巴黎十八年的文学生涯。

九四〇年，纳博科夫移居美国，在韦尔斯利、斯坦福、康奈尔和哈佛大学执教，以小说家、诗人、批评家和翻译家身份享誉文坛，著有《庶出的标志》《洛丽塔》《普宁》和《微暗的火》等长篇小说。

一九五五年九月十五日，纳博科夫的代表作品《洛丽塔》由巴黎奥林匹亚出版社出版并引发争议。

一九六一年，纳博科夫迁居瑞士蒙特勒；一九七七年七月二日病逝。