Dar [Gift]

The novel 'The Gift' is the last and, perhaps, the most perfect work of Nabokov in Russian. In the center of the novel is the life of a young Russian emigrant Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev in Berlin, his career and development as a writer. The coincidence with the Berlin period of Nabokov himself, with the beginning of his writing career under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin, is immediately striking. And if in the preface the author warns that he should not be compared with the main character, then a rare reader will resist the game 'find ten differences.'