Glory (nabokov Collection Iv)
by H
About This Novel
"Young exiles discover passion and charm in the most ordinary pleasures and seemingly meaningless lonely adventures." The fictional preview of "Speak, Memory" includes trains, travel, distant lights, and galloping nights, and the unexpected surprises of exploring an unknown country with a lonely heart. Translated from the original Russian text, it retains the original charm and beauty. "Glory" is the early Russian masterpiece of Vladimir Nabokov, a recognized master of novels in the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of a man who resolutely ran into danger in order to realize his childhood dream, regardless of worldly views. The protagonist Martin is a Russian young man pursuing romance and aimlessness. His family fled his homeland because of the Russian Revolution. His Anglophile mother sent him to England for a university education. There, Martin stayed with a Russian immigrant family, and his body and mind were quickly taken over by their daughter Sonia. However, Sonia's changeable temperament, coquettishness and frivolity make it beyond Martin's reach. Martin, who is unable to fall in love, feels that if he continues like this, he will become Sonia's shadow, and he will walk around on the sidewalks of Berlin until the end of his life, wasting the increasingly mature, important and solemn things in his heart on his feelings. Therefore, Martin decided to leave Berlin and think about the adventure plan in the solitude of clearing away old thoughts. It was his childhood dream, the unknown he had always wanted to explore, and the end of the secret path in the childhood bedside painting. With a martyr's heart and a trembling, irresistible wanderer's passion, Martin embarked on his own lonely journey, writing his own obituary until the end of his life.
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