hinking it awkward to stand trial in a formal tuxedo, the twenty-seven-year-old Vladimir Nabokov showed up in a dark blue suit. That night—July 13, 1926—the Union of Russian Journalists in Berlin held a mock trial of Leo Tolstoy’s famous late story (1889). Nabokov disdained such literary trials, which had become
A Monologue VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Jun 08, 2021
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