The Gift
The Gift
Nabokov, Vladimir
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780679727255, Publication Date: Wed, May 1, 1991, Type: Paperback ,
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1Considered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. - An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet seeking fame in the phantasmic world of Berlin in the 1920s.

"A fascinating lesson in the truly staggering number of possible ways of writing and seeing." -Kirkus Reviews

The Gift is the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature follows the pursuits of an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write.

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of the initial period of his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others.

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