Nabokov tutorials

CONTENTS

•   Introduction

Part I - Apprentice Years: Stories 1924 - 1929

•   A Matter of Chance
•   Details of a Sunset
•   The Thunderstorm
•   Bachmann
•   Christmas
•   A Letter that Never Reached Russia
•   The Return of Chorb
•   A Guide to Berlin
•   A Nursery Tale
•   Terror
•   The Passenger
•   The Doorbell
•   An Affair of Honour
•   The Potato Elf

Part II - The European Master: Stories 1930 - 1939

•   The Eye
•   The Aurelian
•   A Bad Day
•   A Busy Man
•   Terra Incognita
•   Lips to Lips
•   The Reunion
•   Orache
•   Music
•   A Dashing Fellow
•   Perfection
•   The Admiralty Spire
•   The Leonardo
•   The Circle
•   Breaking the News
•   In Memory of L.I.Shigaev
•   A Russian Beauty
•   Torpid Smoke
•   Recruiting
•   A Slice of Life
•   Spring in Fialta
•   Cloud, Castle, Lake
•   Tyrants Destroyed
•   The Visit to the Museum
•   Lik
•   Vasiliy Shishkov

Part III - American Notes: Stories 1940 - 1951

•   The Assistant Producer
•   That in Aleppo Once...
•   A Forgotten Poet
•   Time and Ebb
•   Conversation Piece
•   Signs and Symbols
•   The Vane Sisters
•   Lance

•   Conclusion

Collected Stories is a collection of sixty-five stories drawn from Nabokov's entire working life. They range from the early meditations on love, loss, and memory, through to his later technical experiments, with unreliable story-tellers and games of literary hide-and-seek. All of them are characterised by a stunning command of language, rich imagery, and a powerful lyrical inventiveness. Edited by his son, Dmitri Nabokov, who keeps the family torch aflame.








Studying Fiction is an introduction to the basic concepts and the technical terms you will need when making a study of prose fiction. It shows you how to apply the elements of literary analysis by explaining them one at a time, and then showing them at work in a series of short stories which are reproduced as part of the book. Contains stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine Mansfield, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, and Charles Dickens. All of them are excellent tales in their own right.







In this captivating interpretation of Nabokov's career through the prism of his shorter fiction, Maxim Shrayer explores how Nabokov eclipsed the achievements of the great Russian masters of the short story. Even as he became - in exile from Russia and his native tradition - an American writer, Nabokov maintained a dialogic relationship with Anton Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, and other masters of the short story form. This is VN the radical traditionalist.