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More info Two autobiographical novels by Vladimir Nabokov under one cover. Both were written in Berlin and came out under the pseudonym V. Sirin. One of the main themes of both novels is the relationship between the past and the present. And given the emigre status of both the hero of «Mashenka» Ganin, and the hero of «Feat» Martyn, the past turns out to be much brighter and more promising. But is it possible, relying on moments that have escaped forever, to build your future? These questions clearly tormented not only the heroes and not only their creator, but also all those who were forced to leave Soviet Russia and take with them pre-revolutionary Russia. In a letter to his mother, Nabokov wrote about the novel Mashenka and its characters: “I know what everyone smells like, how they walk, how they eat, and I understand so well that God — creating the world — found in this pure and exciting joy. translators of God’s creations, little plagiarists and imitators of it, sometimes, perhaps, we adorn what is written by God, as it happens that a charming commentator adds even more charm to another line of genius. «Published in 1926 in the Berlin publishing house» Slovo «» Mashenka » in 1931 «Feat» — one of Nabokov’s most personal novels, exploring in incredible detail the fragile and ghostly territory of human memories Abstract The book contains two largely autobiographical novels by Nabokov, united by the theme of the memory of the past. Lev Glebovich Ganin, the protagonist of the novel «Mashenka», meets Alexei Ivanovich Alferov at the Berlin boarding house, who is waiting for the imminent arrival of his wife Mashenka from Bolshevik Russia, whom he has not seen for four years. Seeing the photo, Ganin recognizes his youthful love in Mashenka and decides to return it. The novel «Podvig» is the story of the European wanderings of another Russian emigrant, Martin Edelweiss, who tries to arrange his life in the rapidly changing scenery of Germany, France, England, Switzerland and Greece, to come to terms with the past and find the future. …
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