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Andrey Babikov :
On Germination of Nabokov’s “Main Theme”. In his Story “Natasha”
On the basis of a first reading of yet unpublished Nabokov’s story “Natasha” (1921) and its juxtaposition to other important Nabokov’s compositions of 1921, this paper will consider the question of the genesis of Nabokov’s “Main Theme” (hereafter) in its interconnections with his original poetics.
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I would like to express my gratitude to Dmitri Nabokov for granting me the opportunity to become acquainted with Nabokov’s archival materials, and to use the quotation from his unpublished story in this article. Copyright © 2006 by Andrey Babikov
16Copyright © 2006 English-language translation of an excerpt from the unpublished Russian short fiction by Vladimir Nabokov entitled “Natasha” by Dmitri Nabokov .
17Reprinted by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.