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VN Bibliography: "Sounds"
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EDITORIAL NOTE: The story reported below has not, so far as I know, been
published before in English, although it appears in German translation in
volume 13 of the Rowohlt edition. According to Boyd, vol I, it was
written in September 1923 in Berlin and "is a semi-autobiographical
stroy recounting a youth's semi-adulterous affair against a Vyra-like
backdrop. In this unpublished story Nabokov hits his true vein for the
first time." (p. 217)
From: Marianne Cotugno <cotuma@internet.gallup.com>
The current issue of the New Yorker contains the short story,
"Sounds" by VVN, advertised on the cover as "autobiographical."
Does this story appear elsewhere?
Marianne Cotugno
published before in English, although it appears in German translation in
volume 13 of the Rowohlt edition. According to Boyd, vol I, it was
written in September 1923 in Berlin and "is a semi-autobiographical
stroy recounting a youth's semi-adulterous affair against a Vyra-like
backdrop. In this unpublished story Nabokov hits his true vein for the
first time." (p. 217)
From: Marianne Cotugno <cotuma@internet.gallup.com>
The current issue of the New Yorker contains the short story,
"Sounds" by VVN, advertised on the cover as "autobiographical."
Does this story appear elsewhere?
Marianne Cotugno