by Michael Scammell (Translator), Michael Scammell (Translator), Vladimir Nabokov (Author)
The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography 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 and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 05 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0141185872
ISBN 13: 9780141185873