So dna korobki. Prozrachnye predmety. Rasskazy, roman
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The book consists of two parts: “From the Bottom of a Box” and “Transparent Things”. The first part gets together Nabokov’s stories written during the period from 1943 to 1951 after which the author never turned to this genre. “Transparent Things” (1972) is a short story (or a small novel) of the late Swiss sample. “I used to spend forty years to invent Russia and Western Europe and then I should invent America”, as wrote Nabokov in his epilogue to “Lolita”. Now he had to “invent” a mountain-ski Switzerland with its hotels and resort places. It is not by chance that the main character of “Transparent Things”, an editor and proof-reader (his son’s coeval), is a type of person who more often than others was under the author’s control. The reader will probably be surprised to learn that Dmitriy Nabokov being keen on mountaineering several times visited their parents’ room 64 by climbing Montreux Palace front from his room 52 (that is illustrated on the cover of the book).
