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...story, he says enigmatically: "I have learned a great deal from living, yet virtually nothing from my life." The secret, no doubt, lies somewhere in the ruins of old Austria-Hungary-but that was in a foreign country, and besides, the youth is dead. A sad émigré survives, whose melancholy wisdom it is to say: "It is safer to dream of the past than of the future...
...wholly false impression of his talents. Of one bottom-drawer writer, a Soviet official recently exclaimed: "He's much, much better than his work!" On the other hand, the real Abram Tertz could well be that breed of writer known in the underground as an "internal émigré"-a man who produces only for the drawer or for a select circle of trusted intimates who can read his hand-copied manuscripts in secrecy and delight...
...Receptionist. Unlike the 19th century European immigrants who believed that the streets of America were literally paved with gold, Gourin's émigrés know that the cobblestones are rough-but not so rough as at home. "You've got to work like a dog, do jobs that Negroes and North Africans do in France," says one returned Gourinois. "Still, practically everybody in Gourin has some friend or relative there." Each Christmas Gourin gets 10,000 greeting cards from New York-and many contain dollars...
...decade, in between chasing butterflies, translating Pushkin (TIME, July 31), and writing his brilliant, cross-grained fiction, he has been bringing to market carefully supervised English translations of his own early novels, which he wrote in Russian in the days when he was a member of the Czarist émigré community in Berlin and Paris. Several of these translations, notably 1963's version of The Gift (his last Russian novel), have displayed the unmistakable Nabokov wit and sardonic inventiveness. The Defense is the earliest of his work yet to be reissued, and reading Nabokov...
...Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comic fantasy about Russian émigré life in Berlin by the most famous literary magician now at work...