"Look at the harlequins!" - the last completed novel by the famous writer Vladimir Nabokov . The main character is Vadim Vadimovich, a Russian-American writer (as well as Nabokov himself), writes memories of his creative and personal life. And in both Vadim Vadimovich fulfills the covenant of his cousin . "Enough to eat!" she exclaimed. - Look at the harlequins! .. Trees are harlequins, words are harlequins. Situations and problems. Add any two things - sharpness , Images, — and here you are a trio of skomorokhs! Come on! Play! Invent the world! Create reality!" And he created! Despite the large number of parallels between the author and the hero of the novel , This "telling of love and prose" should not be taken as an autobiography. Rather, the novel is a parody of her. But, perhaps, in the "Harlequins" Nabokov does not play with the reader, which is already once again, but sums up his thoughts on life and writing? Or tries to dot the "i", anticipating the future of his works “Ax, steal them into the steppe, my Harlequins, / in the buteracs, to foreign atamans! / Geometry of them, Venice of them / will be called a joke and deception?” Nabokov’s answer provides the reader to find his own and thereby includes it in the process of creation.