Tag: Vladimir Nabokov
The February highlights on Munich’s music theater stages – Munich
Vladimir Nabokov found F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel “The Great Gatsby” simply terrible. At least that’s what Nabokov’s biographer Arthur Mizener reports. Fitzgerald couldn’t repay his colleague in kind, because…
Experiences in exile: The empty battery in a foreign culture
One of the most shared images on social media in recent weeks a photo of the crowded Kharkiv train platform, whose drama was so haunting that many commentators had to…