To a great extent, autobiographical novels about the life of emigrants and wanderings across Europe.
The book contains two largely autobiographical novels by Nabokov, united by the theme of memory of the past. Lev Glebovich Ganin, the main character of the novel “Mashen’ka,” meets in a Berlin boarding house Aleksey Ivanovich Alferov, who is waiting for the imminent arrival from Bolshevik Russia of his wife, Mashen’ka—whom he hasn’t seen for four years. Seeing a photograph, Ganin recognizes Mashen’ka as his youthful love and decides to win her back. The novel “Glory” is the story of European wanderings of another Russian emigrant, Martyn Edelveiss, who tries—against the rapidly changing scenery of Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and Greece—to arrange his life, reconcile with the past, and find a future.