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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 ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov [b] (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ⓘ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 [a] – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator ...
(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)
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.
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 ...
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
Invitation to a Beheading (Russian: Приглашение на казнь, lit. 'Invitation to an execution') is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov.It was originally published in Russian from 1935 to 1936 as a serial in Sovremennye zapiski, a Russian émigré magazine.