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Vladimir Nabokov
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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Pages: 207
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Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin
rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous
young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories
of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary
Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to
Ganin's, who, he discovers, is Mary's husband, temporarily separated from her by the
Revolution but expecting her imminent arrival from Russia.
Insightful reviews
Manny: Nabokov's first novel is a thinly fictionalized account of his first serious love affair. He
then presented it as straight autobiography in one of the chapters of Speak, Memory, and finally
did another, heavily stylized, fictional version in Ada.
I wonder if he would have returned to this theme again if he had lived another few years? Also,
if the woman in question read any of them? I'm trying to imagine how I'd have experienced it.
Would I have been deeply touched? creeped out? taken great pains to make sure my husband
didn't read the books? left them lying around so that he was sure to notice them? Never having
been stalked by a literary genius, I must say that I'm at a loss.
Peter: For a book in which largely nothing happens, Nabokov has a lot to say. In fact, the
novella has so little in terms of notable actionable events, that it could be adumbrated in less
than a couple of sentences. But to do so would be missing the point. It is a Bildungsroman of
the protagonist Ganin; although this does not become apparent until the very end of the story.
With a misleading trajectory of introspection which for most of seems like he is moving
backwards, living vicariously through his memories of a past livelong romance with the titular
character, there is a Joycian sense of paralysis imminent throughout. Nabokov does not spell
out how or why Ganin has changed at the end of the novella, but on the final page a epiphanic
decision is taken which in no unsure way affirms that he has indeed changed.
Several stand out quotes for me:
"that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us
surrenders a daydream in which we have no place."
“And when he went to bed and listened to the trains passing through that cheerless house in
which lived seven Russian lost shades, the whole of life seemed like a piece of film-making
where heedless extras knew nothing of the picture in which they were taking part.”
Viji Sarath (Bookish endeavors): Dull.. Boring..
Not what someone would expect from a writer like Nabokov,but considering the fact that this
was his first novel,it was quite good. Romance,nostalgia,and waiting.. It's a set of golden
ingredients that any writer of romance would love.. But the ingredients weren't blended well..
Somewhere it lost its taste..
Matt: Ugh, i actually want I hadn't all started this book. i am approximately midway via it, and
that i have not been in a position to preserve concentration via the majority of it. it's good and
neatly written from a technical standpoint, yet no longer from a reader's. not anything even
remotely fascinating happens, and, in contrast to Joyce's Ulysses, the concepts recommend are
neither insightful to the human brain nor even offered in an attractive manner.Some of the
problems i've got with this booklet might be a result of translator, yet seeing that Nabokov
himself helped them, I doubt it.I'm nonetheless debating even if to learn the second one half,
given how a lot i actually loathe this ebook whereas I learn it. If this booklet wasn't so short, I
most likely do not need had a moment considered preventing midway through.It turns out that,
when you consider that this used to be a marginally fictionalized tale in line with Nabokov's life,
the boredom that the most personality feels all through additionally felt through the writer
concerning the events, and it indicates within the writing that cannot carry curiosity for
extraordinarily lengthy at all.I don't suggest this publication to a person yet those that have a
different curiosity in Nabokov's work, author's first novels, or well written work.UPDATE: i ended
this novel a number of days ago, and it did not get any better. Nabokov during this e-book does
little or no to really paint an image within the reader's mind, leaving it as much as the reader to
color his picture. i used to be so not able to stick concentrated whereas interpreting this
publication that i do not even comprehend what the "twist ending" was, and that i fairly don't
need to return and take a look at to determine it out. i guess that this ebook might be thought of
a technical masterpiece, what with the entire "beautiful" phrases at the page, yet as [I]Black
Swan[/I] says: perfection is studying to enable cross of the technical and simply flow. [I]Mary[/I]
by no means allow go. It by no means flowed.
Capsguy: i really desire this to a couple of the Nabokov i have already read. It does not have
the pretentiousness and vanity obtrusive in lots of of his later books.It was once virtually candy
within the innocence.
MJ Nicholls: Vladimir’s debut, pictured the following in resplendent pink, is the mild story of
arch git Ganin remembering his first love—the obeisant Mary with the Tartar nose. the
unconventional suffers from lingering descriptions of virtually each unusual nuance to every
person scene, written earlier than Nabokovian prose used to be really Nabokovian. This
challenge canine a few of his previous work, between them Invitation to a Beheading and The
Luzhin safety in its snoozier moments.This common qualm apart (well, it’s fairly a wide qualm,
yet fans, preserve reading) the characters are rendered with sturdy humour—several of them
caricatures from older Russian novels (the ailing poet, the bored daughter, the tedious
man)—and the nostalgic throb of misplaced love is palpable: many enthusiasts of this ebook
empathise with surroundings and the ebbing away of affection. Alas, however, the finishing is
an amateurish drop-off, slightly definitely worth the slog via lengthy passages of seasonal flux
and bulky pining.
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