The Gift

Interesting Facts

• The book is the last novel Nabokov wrote in Russian.
• The novel is a complex, multi-layered work intertwining autobiographical elements and literary allusions.
• The main character of the novel, Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev, is an alter ego of Nabokov himself.
• One of the key themes of the novel is the theme of creativity and the craft of writing.
• The novel contains numerous references to Russian literature, particularly the works of Pushkin and Gogol.
• The work was first published in 1938 in the magazine "Sovremennye Zapiski" in Paris.
• The novel includes a parodic biography of the fictional writer Konstantin Kirillovich Cherdyntsev, the father of the main character.
• The book contains many linguistic games and complex literary techniques characteristic of Nabokov's style.