Name: Mashenka (in Spanish)
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9788433914330

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher

Anagrama

Collection

compactos

Year

1994

Language

Spanish

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8433914332

ISBN13

9788433914330

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Primera

Synopsis "Mashenka (in Spanish)"

Ganin, un joven exiliado ruso, sobrevive en el Berlín de entre guerras gracias a los más diversos trabajos -camarero, vendedor a domicilio, extra de cine...- mientras sueña con abandonar la ciudad y rememora su infancia y adolescencia en la añorada Rusia y su temprano romance con Mashenka, mujer deseada e idealizada, amor perdido en el pasado. Anhelante, mientras rebusca en su memoria los preciados recuerdos, Ganin rompe con su acutal novia y deja pasar el tiempo en la pensión en la que vive con otros exiliados que mantienen una peculiar relación de amor-odio con la madre patria; el viejo poeta rondado por la muerte, la romántica muchacha de los grandes pechos, los dos bailarines homosexuales y el mediocre hombre al que el protagonista conoce cuando ambos se quedan encerrados en el ascensor y que resulta ser el marido de Mashenka, que pronto irá a reunirse con él...Mashenka, primera novela de Vladimir Nabokov, es una temprana muestra de su talento y contiene ya mucho de los elementos que configuran el fascinante mundo del genial autor de Lolita, así como la admirable prosa y la desbordante capacidad fabuladora que caracterizan su producción literaria.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg into an aristocratic family in 1899, but his family background first, and later his personal interests, took him to Germany, England, France, and the United States, where he began a brilliant career as a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, while teaching Literature at several prestigious universities. His novels Mary (1926), King, Queen, Knave (1928), The Defense (1930), Glory (1932), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Despair and The Gift (both from 1934), Invitation to a Beheading (1938), The Eye (1937), The Enchanter (1939), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Ultima Thule (1942) preceded the monumental success of Lolita (1955) which allowed him to leave teaching and fully dedicate himself to his writing vocation. Later came Pnin (1957), Pale Fire (1962), Ada or Ardor (1969), Transparent Things (1972), Look at the Harlequins! (1974). Among his non-fiction works, his autobiography Speak, Memory (1951) and literary essays such as Nikolai Gogol (1944) or his courses on European literature, on Don Quixote or on Russian literature stand out. In 1961, he moved to Switzerland, where he died in 1977. In 2009, his son Dmitri agreed to the publication of his unfinished novel, The Original of Laura.

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