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Despair is the second Nabokov novel to feature unreliable narration from a first-person point of view, the first being The Eye with the character Smurov. However, The Eye was more of an experiment condensed in a hundred-page novella , whereas Despair takes the unreliable first-person narrator to its fully fledged form, rivaling Humbert Humbert ...
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov.All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1935 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Riga and published individually in the émigré press at that time later to be translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov.
(c. 1921) [2] "Natasha". The New Yorker, June 9 & 16, 2008 [3] (incorporated into the 17th and later printings of the paperback edition of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov) (1923-01-07) [4] "The Word". The New Yorker, December 26, 2005 [5] (incorporated into the 15th and later printings of the paperback edition of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov)
Poems and Problems (ISBN 0-07-045724-7) is a book by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. It consists of 39 poems originally written in Russian and translated by Nabokov, 14 poems written in English, and 18 chess problems. One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith," in 1928, can be looked at as a foreshadowing of his 1955 novel ...
[1] [2] Before being collated into short story collections, some were published by various European Russian émigré newspapers and magazines. [ 3 ] This collection was published in English in 1973 by McGraw-Hill in New York, it was translated by Nabokov himself and his son Dmitri Nabokov as well as Simon Karlinsky who collaborated with the ...
Nine Stories is an English-language collection of stories written in Russian, French, and English by Vladimir Nabokov. It was published in December 1947 by New Directions in New York City, as the second issue of a serial, Direction. [1] The nine stories are: "The Aurelian" (a translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov of "Pil'gram")
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All but the last one were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1939 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Menton, and later translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. These stories appeared first individually in the ...
Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov.It was edited by Page Stegner. [1] Because Nabokov supervised its production less than a decade before he died, it is useful in attempting to identify which works Nabokov considered to be his best, especially among his short stories.