Book description
'The woods were gradually thinning. I was tormented by strange
hallucinations. I gazed at the weird tree trunks, around some of
which were coiled thick, flesh-coloured snakes; suddenly I thought I
saw, between the trunks, as though through my fingers, the mirror of
a half-open wardrobe...'
These three stories of menace, magic and melancholy display Vladimir
Nabokov's astonishing range and inventiveness. Whether describing an
escape across a surreal tropical landscape, a fateful meeting or an
unexpected - and threatening - return, each tale shows his dazzling
sleight of hand, intellectual playfulness and fantastical imagination.
This book includes Terra Incognita, Spring in Fialta
and The Doorbell.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. Living in
Berlin and then Paris between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short
stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and
established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian migr
writers. In 1940 he moved with his wife and son to America where he rose
to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels
he composed in English, most famously,
Lolita.
In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland where he died in 1977.
