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1924 Short Stories: Indian Camp, the Rats in the Walls, the Adventure of the Illustrious Client, the Most Dangerous Game
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-03.
ISBN 9781155303741
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Indian Camp, the Rats in the Walls, the Adventure of the Illustrious Client, the Most Dangerous Game, the Adventure of the Three Garridebs, the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, Big Two-Hearted River, the Custody of the Pumpkin, the Pearl of Love, Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner, Bachmann, Under the Pyramids, the Loved Dead, Philomel Cottage. Excerpt: " Bachmann " is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov under his nom-de-plume V. Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was first published in Rul, a Russian émigré paper founded by his father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov , and later included in a number of short story collections: Vozvrashchenie Chorba , Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1975), and The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1995). He and his son, Dmitri Nabokov , provided the English translation. Plot summary The story has an outer narrator who receives the story by Sack, the inner narrator. Sack is the impresario of Bachmann, but he is callous, and does not care for him. The core story deals with the love relationship between Mme. Perov and Bachmann. Bachmann is an awkward and eccentric pianist and composer to whom she is introduced at a party where she (like the reader) first mistakes Sack for Bachmann. Sack speaks disparagingly of B, who has "no brains". Sack has to track him down frequently as he being an alcoholic tends to disappear before his performances. Mme Perov becomes a necessary and enhancing facilitator for the musical genius; he always made sure that she was sitting in the first row when he was performing. One night, when she was sick and absent, Bachmann refused to play and insulted the audience (Sack complained that he was showing them "the fig - instead of the fugue"). Sack dragged her out of her bed to the theatre, but Bachmann had left already. Sack
Liknande böckerRussian Short Story Writers, Including: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Bunin, Isaak Babel, Ivan Turgenev, Leonid Andreyev, Ivan Goncharov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Oleg Pavlov English-Russian Translators, Including: Vladimir Nabokov, Helena Roerich, Samuil Marshak, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Marina Boroditskaya, Nora Gal, Vera Nabokov, Viktor Golyshev, Andrey Kistyakovsky, Vladimir Muravyov
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