Nabokov’s stories are famous in principle far less than his novels. However, this “minor” work of the writer occupies in his oeuvre a completely special, independent place—and each of them, as critics fairly note, stylistically “fulfills its own and a few other tasks.”
Contents:
— The Admiralty Needle
— Harlequin in the Field
— Spring in Fialta
— Kinglet
— The Mask
— Heavy Smoke
— A Visit to the Museum
— Mouth to Mouth