I discussed the archeology of CCL in "The World of Nabokov's Stories" (1998). In this book, and also in my article "After Rapture and Recapture: Transformations in the Drafts of Nabokov's Stories (1999), I wrote at some length about the story's textual history. Incidentally, at the upcoming Nabokov Readings 2014 in St. Petersburg, where I'm heading as of this writing, Mikhail Efimov will be presenting a paper on CCL and the legacy of Russian symbolism.

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On Friday, June 27, 2014, NABOKV-L, English <nabokv-l@holycross.edu> wrote:

NB: John Morris points out that the original version of the story published in the Atlantic Monthly is not quite the same as that collected in Nabokov's Dozen, the version which appears in the Stories (pp. 426-33). He himself mentioned some slight differences in a note: "The Steel-and-Leather Guys" in The Nabokovian 42 (1999): 23-25.

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