![]() ![]() ![]() His first memory of noticing her is at a concert held in the village, and Nabokov’s virtuosity as a writer gets a lot of room to play in all these memories and dreams. Ganin met her in the countryside one summer her family was vacationing near his family’s dacha. And immediately the rest of Ganin’s week is washed in memory as he realizes his first love is coming, and she’s married to this awful man. He excitedly shows Ganin her picture-Mary’s picture. ![]() His “ pension was both Russian and nasty,” and his neighbor in the next room is Aleksey Ivanovich Alfyorov, also both Russian and nasty.Īlfyorov has just gotten word that his wife is on her way from Russia to join him in Berlin and will arive on Saturday. In Mary, Nabokov’s first novel, Lev Glebovich Ganin is a Russian exile living in Berlin among other exiles. ![]()
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