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Written in a foreward, 2 short stories, another foreward, and 3 short stories taken from a journal.
The first short story is
Bela (really more a novella)
An unnamed narrator meets a man on a train who proceeds to tell him a story. Maxim Maximych (the man) describes the main character of his story Pechorin, as a man full of contradictions: "he'd spend the whole day out hunting in rain or cold" and "think nothing of it," yet "he'd sit in his room and at the least puff of wind reckon he'd caught a chi ...more
The first short story is
Bela (really more a novella)
An unnamed narrator meets a man on a train who proceeds to tell him a story. Maxim Maximych (the man) describes the main character of his story Pechorin, as a man full of contradictions: "he'd spend the whole day out hunting in rain or cold" and "think nothing of it," yet "he'd sit in his room and at the least puff of wind reckon he'd caught a chi ...more
The best part of this work is the snarky editor's notes by Nabokov in the English translation. Otherwise a one-timer, seems overrated for what it really is.
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Confusing.
Jul 15, 2017
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