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Bend Sinister (novel)
''Bend Sinister'' is a dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 1945 and 1946, and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947. It was Nabokov's second English-language novel and eleventh overall.
==The Title==
A "bend sinister" is a heraldic charge: A bar drawn from the upper left to the lower right on a coat of arms (from the point of view of the person wearing the shield). A bend, the standard stripe on a coat of arms, is the reverse: It crosses from the right shoulder of the wearer to the lower left side of the trunk. A standard bend is sometimes called a ''bend dexter'' to distinguish it from the bend sinister.〔Encyclopedia Britannica 1987 article on heraldry〕 Bends sinister have sometimes been used in heraldry to symbolize a bastard son. 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 wordplay concerning leftward (or "sinister") movements.
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