Gift. Nabokov V.V.

“Gift” (1938) - the last completed Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov and one of the most significant and multifaceted novels of the 20th century. Created longer and more difficult than all of his other Russian books, he incorporated the unusually rich and heterogeneous material, retained in harmonious balance due to the skillful composition of the whole. The “gift” is dedicated to several years of the life of the young emigrant Fedor Godunov -Cherdyntsev - the period of the formation of his writer's gift - but in space and time he goes far beyond the borders of Berlin in the 1920s in which his action unfolds. It most fully and freely set out the views of Nabokov on art and society, on true and false in Russian culture and social thought, on the reasons for the decline of Russia and the best that remains unchanged.