Talent
by H
About This Novel
"The Gift" is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece from the early years of the novel master Nabokov. It depicts the life of the exiled young man Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev in Berlin from 1926 to 1929, as well as the rapid expansion of his literary talent. First he wrote a volume of exquisite, retrospective poetry that attracted little attention; then a brilliant, candid biography of a revered historical figure; and finally, he came up with the idea for The Gift itself. In addition to successfully creating an image of an ambitious young artist, Nabokov provided us with a capital and a continent in The Gift, namely Berlin and Eurasia. The novel is as crowded, busy and ever-changing as a city street, and as vast and diverse as the largest land mass. It shuttles between reality and fiction and contains a lot of thoughts on the current situation of Russian literature and society.
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