The definitive edition of Nabokov's stories prepared by his son Dmitri. Sixty-eight Nabokovian delicatessens.
A man writing in his office is interrupted by a forest elf, a concert pianist prepares to end his career, a barber shaves the man who tortured him, a timid dreamer makes a pact with him. Devil ...
The sixty-eight stories by Vladimir Nabokov that are included in this definitive edition of his short story work, prepared by his son Dmitri, allow you to enjoy his immeasurable literary virtuosity: his thematic and formal pirouettes, his disturbing ambiguities, his elegant handling of the language, of the presence of themes – such as the double – that fascinated him and of the many places that left their mark on him: the Russia of his childhood, the England of his student years, the Germany and France of his exile. and then those United States that he always observed w...read more