The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov Part 48

Nabokov's Dozen (New York, Doubleday, 1958) includes the following three stories translated by Peter Pertzov in collaboration with the author: 1. "Spring in Fialta" (Vesna v Fial'te, 1936) 2. "The Aurelian" (Pil'gram, 1930) 3. "Cloud, Castle, Lake" (Oblako, ozero, bashnya, 1937) A Russian Beauty (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1973) contains the following thirteen stories translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author, except for the t.i.tle translated by Simon Karlinsky in collaboration with the author: 4. "A Russian Beauty" (Krasavitsa, 1934) 5. "The Leonardo" (Korolyok, 1933) 6. "Torpid Smoke" (Tyazhyolyy dym, 1935) 7. "Breaking the News" (Opoveshchenie, 1935) 8. "Lips to Lips" (Usta k ustam, 1932) 9. "The Visit to the Museum" (Poseshchenie muzeya, 1931) 10. "An Affair of Honor" (Podlets, 1927) 11. "Terra Incognita" (same t.i.tle, 1931) 12. "A Das.h.i.+ng Fellow" (Khvat, 1930) 13. "Ultima Thule" (same t.i.tle, 1940) 14. "Solus Rex" (same t.i.tle, 1940) 15. "The Potato Elf" (Kartofel'nyy el'f, 1929) 16. "The Circle" (Krug, 1934) Tyrants Destroyed (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1975) includes twelve stories translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author: 17. "Tyrants Destroyed" (Istreblenie tiranov, 1938) 18. "A Nursery Tale" (Skazka, 1926) 19. "Music" (Muzyka, 1932) 20. "Lik" (same t.i.tle, 1939) 21. "Recruiting" (Nabor, 1935) 22. "Terror" (Uzhas, 1927) 23. "The Admiralty Spire" (Admiralteyskaya igla, 1933) 24. "A Matter of Chance" (Slucbaynost', 1924) 25. "In Memory of L. I. s.h.i.+gaev" (Pamyati L. I. s.h.i.+gaeva, 1934) 26. "Bachmann" (same t.i.tle, 1924) 27. "Perfection" (Sovershenstvo, 1932) 28. "Vasiliy s.h.i.+shkov" (same t.i.tle, 1939) Details of a Sunset (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1976) contains thirteen stories translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author: 29. "Details of a Sunset" (Katastrofa, 1924) 30. "A Bad Day" (Obida, 1931) 31. "Orache" (Lebeda, 1932) 32. "The Return of Chorb" (Vozvrashchenie Chorba, 1925) 33. "The Pa.s.senger" (Pa.s.sazhir, 1927) 34. "A Letter That Never Reached Russia" (Pis'mo v Rossiyu, 1925) 35. "A Guide to Berlin" (Putevoditel' po Berlinu, 1925) 36. "The Doorbell" (Zvonok, 1927) 37. "The Thunderstorm" (Groza, 1924) 38. "The Reunion" (Vstrecha, 1932) 39. "A Slice of Life" (Sluchay iz zhizni, 1935) 40. "Christmas" (Rozhdestvo, 1925) 41. "A Busy Man" (Zanyatoy chelovek, 1931) V.N., Montreux, 1975

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR.

Dmitri Nabokov was born in 1934 in Berlin and came to the United States as a young child with his parents. He graduated from Harvard, served in the U.S. Army, and then began the vocal studies that led him to become an opera and concert performer (as a ba.s.so) around the world. He has translated most of his father's Russian short stories and plays and many of his novels into English.

BOOKS BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV.

ADA, OR ARDOR.

Ada, or Ardor tells a love story troubled by incest, but is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72522-0 BEND SINISTER.

While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, Bend Sinister is first and foremost a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72727-9 DESPAIR.

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965, thirty years after its original publication, Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72343-1 THE ENCHANTER.

The Enchanter is the precursor to Nabokov's cla.s.sic novel, Lolita. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain p.u.b.escent girls.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72886-3 THE EYE.

The Eye is as much farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of ident.i.ties and appearances. Smurov is a lovelorn, self-conscious Russian emigre living in prewar Berlin who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer greater indignities in the afterlife.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72723-1 THE GIFT.

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period of his literary career. It is the story of Fyodor G.o.dunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished emigre who dreams of the book he will someday write.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72725-5 GLORY.

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a young Russian emigre of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil" project to illegally reenter the Soviet Union.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72724-8 INVITATION TO A BEHEADING.

Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world; in an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude."

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72531-2 KING, QUEEN, KNAVE.

Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing store, is ruddy, self-satisfied, and masculine, but repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-cla.s.s wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious pa.s.sion, she longs for their nephew instead.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72340-0 LOLITA.

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed pa.s.sion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72316-5 LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS!.

Nabokov's last novel is an ironic play on the Ja.n.u.s-like relations.h.i.+p between fiction and reality. It is the autobiography of the eminent Russian-American author Vadim Vadimovich N. (b. 1899). Focusing on the central figures of his life, the book leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an author have crossed the line between his life's work and his life itself.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72728-6 THE LUZHIN DEFENSE.

As a young boy, Luzhin is unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen-an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his cla.s.smates. He takes up chess as a refuge, and rises to the rank of grandmaster, but at a cost: in Luzhin's obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants reality.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72722-4 PALE FIRE.

Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreward and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmans.h.i.+p, and political intrigue.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72342-4 PNIN.

Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72341-7 THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT.

Many knew of Sebastian Knight, distinguished novelist, but few knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced his career. After Knight's death, his half brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life, starting with clues found in the novelist's private papers.

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72726-2 SPEAK, MEMORY.

Speak, Memory is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works.

Autobiography/Literature/978-0-679-72339-4 ALSO AVAILABLE.

The Annotated Lolita, 978-0-679-72729-3

Laughter in the Dark, 978-0-679-72450-6

Lolita: A Screenplay, 978-0-679-77255-2

Mary, 978-0-679-72620-3.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, 978-0-679-72997-6.

Strong Opinions, 978-0-679-72609-8.

Transparent Things, 978-0-679-72541-1.

BOOKS BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV.

NOVELS.

Mary.

King, Queen, Knave

The Defense.

The Eye

Glory

Laughter in the Dark.

Despair

Invitation to a Beheading

The Gift

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Bend Sinister

Lolita