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(1952) Author Vladimir Nabokov Original title Дар Translator
Dmitri Nabokov, Michael Scammell, Vladimir Nabokov Language
Russian Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons (1963) Publication date
1938 (serially, except Chapter Four), 1952 complete Published in
English  The Gift (Russian: Дар, Dar; ISBN 0-679-72725-6) is
Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be
his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote
it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was
published in serial form under his nom de plume, Vladimir Sirin.
The Gift's fourth chapter, a pseudo-biography of the Russian
writer Nikolay Chernyshevsky, was censored from publication in
the Russian émigré journal that published the book's four other
chapters.  The story's apparent protagonist is Fyodor Godunov-
Cherdyntsev, a Russian writer living in Berlin after his family
fled the Bolshevik Revol