Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0003894, Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:27:33 -0700

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Re: Best VN story? (fwd)
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Tom Bolt
bolt@tbolt.com


My favorite story, based
on my having thought
about it once a month
or so since I first read
it in 1991 (in a Penguin
paperback smuggled from
England to the US), is
the Russian story (I've
only read it in English)
"A Dashing Fellow."

It contains one of VN's
best inversions, and is
very sad, with its crude
depths of inverted
tenderness.



Tom