The Gift (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: 1926-1929
- Setting: Berlin
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Parody
- Subjects: Love or romance, Literature, Poetry or poets, 1920’s, Creative process, Berlin
- Locales: Berlin, Germany
Characters Discussed
Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov- Cherdyntsev (FYOH-dohr kohn-stahn- TIH-noh-vihch GOH-dew-nov-chehr- DIHN-tsehv), a young Russian émigré writer who lives in Berlin. As the novel begins, Fyodor recently has published his first volume of poetry, a collection of works about childhood. The collection contains several gems of precise description but is destined never to receive the approval of a broad general audience. Over the course of the novel, Fyodor probes the possibility of using a variety of topics as the subject of a new written work: the suicide of...
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