The Gift (Nabokov novel)
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The Gift is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was p
First publication in Sovremennye zapiski with the fourth chapter cut out
First complete edition (1952)
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician
The Gift (Nabokov novel)
…and it was published in serial form in 1938 under his pen name, Vladimir Sirin. The Gift's fourth chapter, a pseudo-biography of the Russian writer Nikolay Chernyshevsky, was censored from publication in the Russian émigré journal Sovremennye zapiski that published the book's four other chapters. The story's apparent…
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Chernyshevsky honoured on a 1953 stamp