That in Aleppo Once (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: Around 1941
- Setting: Nice, France
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His wife
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, France or French people, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, World War II, Paris, Adultery, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people
- Locales: Nice, France
The Story
The narrative of the struggle of a nameless man to preserve his sanity, this story is told through a letter that he addresses to a literary colleague whom he seems to have known since an early age. His letter tells the bizarre story of his marriage to a seemingly nonexistent wife, their eventful flight from Paris to Nice to escape the Germans, and the strange events that arise from their unfortunate separation in Faugères, so close to their destination.
When the narrator gets off the train to get food in Faugères, the train leaves without him—several...
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