A Guide to Berlin | Critical Overview
The original publication of ‘‘A Guide to Berlin’’ (as ‘‘Putevoditel’ po Berlinu’’) in a Russian-language newspaper for the Russian expatriate community in Berlin virtually guaranteed that Nabokov’s fourteenth published story would receive little initial critical attention. By 1930, however, Nabokov’s first three novels— Mashenka, Korol’, dama, valet, and Zashchita Luzhina—had established Nabokov’s literary reputation, and he decided to gather his early stories into the collection Vozvrashchenie Chorba (1929,...
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