![]() ![]() The story navigates between Ganin’s reality in the pension and his past in Russia, with Mary, his first real love. Nabokov uses beautiful metaphors and employs a rather filmic writing style. The other, eccentric guests are Russian émigrés, just like Ganin. Together they muse about their native country and talk about their personal problems. The novel has got a slow pace (the story is already half way through when he starts telling us about Mary) and is very detailed. Mary (1926) is the début of Vladimir Nabokov, whom we all know from his famous novel Lolita. This is quite a short story (only 136 pages) and narrates about Ganin, a Russian émigré living in a small and dirty pension in Berlin. ![]()
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