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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Being Stuck in Life

In 1925 Nabokov would have been 25 or 26 very young and he would have been like his characters in Russian Emagrade Living in Berlin. Do you think it feels like early Nabokov? Not yet fully realized or do you think he was already all there? I mean I think a lot of the elements are already there. We meet these characters who are all kind of, they have this Emagrade existence in Berlin and kind of an unsure future and their life are on pause.

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