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Nabokov’s summer of 1926 as a standalone adventure
A young writer has just published his first novel and married, enjoys great success in exile, considers himself a genius, and is convinced that his novel will soon be translated into every language and that he will regain the riches he lost in Russia. Therefore, he is happy despite his poverty. The paradox is that his plans will come true, but only thirty years later, something he doesn’t yet know.
Vladimir Nabokov spent the summer 1926 alone in Berlin. His wife is at a health resort on the Baltic Sea.
«…Kuritsyn has a brilliant command of the material, and his meticulous attention misses no detail, no matter how small, of the writer‘s biography, no subtle passages in Nabokov‘s letters and texts, and much more, which Kuritsyn sometimes reconstructs intuitively, yet one trusts this reconstruction…» ZNAMYA