The Return of Chorb (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1920
- Setting: A German city
- Principal Characters: Chorb, Mr. Keller, Mrs. Keller
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Supernatural, Reality, Death or dying, Bereavement or grief
- Locales: Germany
The Story
The Kellers, smug, prosperous philistines, return home after an evening at the opera and a nightclub. The maid tells them that their son-in-law, Chorb, supposedly on his honeymoon in the south of France, has paid a call, saying that his wife is ill. He is staying in the same disreputable hotel where he and his bride spent their wedding night, after fleeing the elaborate reception arranged by her dismayed parents. Although Chorb has promised to call in the morning, the alarmed couple immediately sets out for the hotel.
The wife is in fact not ill, but dead....
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