Nabokov's Dozen - Vladimir Nabokov Bartho Kriek

Nabokov's Dozen - Vladimir Nabokov Bartho KriekIn some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, these stories sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again.

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But the old order has vanished

Berl weet soms in enkele zinnen flonkerende miniaturen te schilderen

Als de spanning tussen de familieleden toeneemt

Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers

Het boek was decennialang in de vergetelheid geraakt

he finds himself

om de begrafenis van zijn moeder bij te wonen

dat hij een pestkop en een moralist is

de wever die pas gestorven is

There is her lover Ivan

part autobiography