Volume 23, Number 9 · May 27, 1976
Jeweler at Work
By Helen Muchnic
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
by Vladimir Nabokov
McGraw-Hill, 179 pp., $8.95
'This collection,' Mr. Nabokov announces in a foreword, 'is the last batch of my Russian stories meriting to be Englished.' There are thirteen of them. Written and published in émigré journals between 1924 and 1935, they belong to the outset of his career when he was leading in Berlin 'an odd but by no means unpleasant existence,' as he described it later in Speak, Memory, 'in material indigence and intellectual luxury among perfectly unimportant strangers.' Now, in collaboration with his son Dmitri, he has translated them and supplied brief introductory notes.
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