Nabokov’s short story, Signs and Symbols, recounts the events that transpire on the day of a married couple’s visit to their son on his birthday. The day is plagued with misfortune, and the parents discover that their son, who is a patient at a mental hospital, has tried to kill himself. The story follows the parents after they hear the unsettling news, and it recounts information about their son’s life before his mental illness. This story explores themes of misfortune, family, and psychological hardship.
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Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century--and a thoroughly international one whose work is as carefully read in France, Germany, Japan, and Finland as in his ho...
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Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov wrote novels, short stories, poems, translations, and literary criticism. His novels firmly established him as one of the best stylists of the twentieth centur...
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov