Vladimir Nabokov's Short Story "Easter Rain"

Abstract

Vladimir Nabokov is known mainly as the author of many novels. However, the short story genre occupies an important position in his work. After first appearing in prose as a short story writer during the early twenties, Nabokov continued to write short stories in Russian throughout the thirties. Most of them were first published in emigrant periodicals; die author later included them in three collections: Vozvrashchenie Chorba. Rasskazy i Stikhi ("The Return of Chorb: Short Stories and Poems"), Soglyadataj ("The Eye") and Vesna Î1⁄2 Fial'te ("Spring in Fialta"). All in all, Nabokov wrote about sixty short stories in Russian.