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Original Title:	Подвиг
ISBN:	0679727248 (ISBN13: 9780679727248)
Edition Language:	English

Glory

Vladimir Nabokov

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Glory
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	November 5th 1991 by Vintage (first published 1931)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Novels

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Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.  Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919.  He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.

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I had never heard of this novel by Nabokov before I saw it in a used book pile. The author tells us in a foreword that this was one of his nine Russian novels, his fifth written in Russian (1932). The Russian title was Podvig, which means roughly gallant feat or high deed. Its a story of a rarity a person whose dreams come true. But who needs ...relief from the itch of being!In this quasi-autobiographical novel, a young mans family circumstances are such that hes been a world traveler since he

Amazingly, I found this novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(...) more readable than his Despair (1966) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despair...) in which his lengthy narratives and an unthinkable plot related to his double Felix being shot, crying out incredibly and uttered a word [to verify from text] as part of an in-cold-blood plan mischievously designed by Hermann himself have more or less kept the reader unamused. To continue . . .

Nabokov's prose is brilliant even here, so early in his bibliography. But he commits the rookie mistake of assuming that a personal experience that has been so significant in his life (his own exile from Russia) is interesting per se to readers. Glory offers very little apart from this experience, and this, along with the writing, is note really enough to carry the novel. The plot wafts from trifle to trifle, but never really latches onto anything of importance. The ancillary characters are

Nabokovs kaleidoscopic coming-ofage novel Glory was written in Russian in 1932, and later translated into English by son Dmitri in the seventies, under the supervision of father, author and observant reporter, Vladimir. Basically two veins being explored here. One the familiar theme of first-love / love-lost & consequent melancholy that comprises the vocational aspirations of every Sensitive Youth.And the other, the Mise-en-Scène-- itself a complex place-shifting and time-juggling looking

Early Nabokov, brimming with bountiful lyrical light-fantastic tripping across Russia, Germany, and England, as the hero bumbles into his Cambridge education and chases an indifferent Teutonic vamp for too long. One of the more nostalgic, sincere novels from a pen that became sourer, more acerbic, and esoteric with time.

A Dream Comes TrueI read this because I had a dream that I read this. But the book I read in my dream was much smaller, palm-sized, like one of those toy New Testaments, those prizes for scripture-memorization that one can win on a rainy morning in Sunday school if one raises their hand soon enough, catches the teacher's eye.

Nabokov wrote a lot of chess problems, and even his fiction is a puzzle more often than not. While novels like The Gift make that obvious, Glory is a problem dressed up like a self-indulgent, semi-autobiographical fairytale (which itself would not be bad... just not as interesting). I recommend giving Pushkin's "Autumn" a read to start detangling Glory.