Mary (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Ironic
- Time of Work: 1924
- Setting: Berlin, Germany
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Memory, Love or romance, Revolutions, 1920’s, Germany or German people, Refugees, Heart attack or disease, Russian Revolution
- Locales: Berlin, Germany
Characters Discussed
Lev Glebovich Ganin (GLEH-boh- vihch GAH-nihn), the alias of a twenty-four-year-old Russian émigré who lives in a Berlin pension with several other émigrés. Bored with a dreary love affair with a woman named Lyudmila, Ganin discovers that a fellow boarder’s wife, a woman named Mary who is due to arrive in Berlin from Russia in just a few days’ time, is actually his own first love. Breaking off his current affair, he spends the next few days dreaming about the romance he shared with Mary as a youth and about the difficult conditions of their...
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