Barra siniestra

Adam Krung, a prestigious philosopher and university professor who has just lost his wife, tries to resist the pressures of the totalitarian regime under which he lives. The government intends to manipulate him into publicly supporting the official ideology, ekwilism, and its leader, the dictator Paduk, whom the philosopher nicknames "the Toad". And as the protagonist resists, the system implements more sinister methods to make him twist his arm... The novel -the second he wrote in English, already installed in the United States- relates with hints of grotesque satire, brushstrokes with very black humor and very Nabokovian metaliterary games, the descent into hell of a character harassed to the limit. It is set in an imaginary European country inspired by the Soviet Union from which the Nabokov family had fled.