کتاب  Look at the Harlequins Oiginal A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation Vadim is a Russian migr who like Nabokov is a novelist poet and critic There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness   Good farce throbbing with his wellknown obsessions VS Pritchett The New York Review  Look at the harlequins  Play Invent the world Invent reality  This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich who emigrates to England then Paris then Germany and then the US Now dying he reconstructs his past He remembers Iris his first wife Annette his longnecked typist and Bel his daughter as well as his own bizarre illness numerical nimbus syndrome