A Guide to Berlin | Themes
Art and Experience
In ‘‘A Guide to Berlin’’ Nabokov presents a series of short vignettes of everyday life in the Berlin of the 1920s that illuminate the themes of time, memory, and the artist’s response to experience. The artist’s duty to record everyday experience is summed up in ‘‘The Streetcar’’ section, where the narrator declares, ‘‘I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find in the objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only...
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