Vozvrashchenie Chorba
[
The Return of Chorb] was written shortly after Nabokov [as “V. Sirin”] completed his first novel,
Mashen´ka[
Mary] and was published in two consecutive issues of the Berlin émigré journal
Rul’[
Rudder] in 1925. It appeared again in 1930 (Berlin: Slovo) as the title story of a collection of fifteen stories, dating from 1924 onwards, which included:
Bachmann,
Groza[
The Thunderstorm],
Kartofel´nyi el´f[
The Potato Elf],
Passazhir[
The Passenger],
Pis´mo v Rossiiu[
A Letter that Never Reached Russia],
Podlets[
An Affair of Honour],
Putevoditel´ po Berlinu[
A Guide to Berlin],
Rozhdestvo[
Christmas],
Skazka[
A Nursery Tale],
Uzhas[
Terror], and
Zvonok[
The Doorbell]. All of these are to be found in English in
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov(Knopf, 1995;…
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Citation: Wyllie, Barbara. "Vozvrashchenie Chorba". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 December 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16638, accessed 21 November 2024.]
