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The book was a complete flop commercially and Nabokov only earned €40, a minuscule amount even in the 1930s. The issue was that Hutchinson's only published cheap, "popular" novels, which Despair was not, and thus it was distributed to the wrong audience. Nabokov would later lament that Despair was "a rhinoceros in a world of hummingbirds". [3]
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.
Coat of Arms of the Nabokov family, members of an ancient Russian nobility, granted to them on 1 January 1798 by Emperor Paul I Nabokov's grandfather Dmitry Nabokov, who was Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II Nabokov's father, V. D. Nabokov, in his World War I officer's uniform, 1914 The Nabokov family mansion in Saint Petersburg; today it is the site of the Nabokov museum.
"Details of a Sunset" (Russian: Катастрофа, Katastrofa, transl. "Catastrophe") is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924. Summary
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov.The short stories in this collection were originally written in Russian between 1927 and 1940 under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin.
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) (1926, Summer) "The Man ...
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 ...
The book begins with a list of "Other Books by the Narrator" (that is, Vadim rather than Vladimir Nabokov). Many (if not all) of these titles appear to be doppelgangers of Nabokov's real novels. Tamara (1925) relates to Mary; Pawn Takes Queen (1927) relates to King, Queen, Knave combined with The Defense [1] Plenilune (1929) relates to The Defense