Vladimir Nabokov. El cuento de Navidad : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. El cuento de Navidad
y.... And he himself will recollect, in print: "I drop in on him one evening and, between one thing and another, happen to suggest, 'Dmitri Dmitrievich, you ought to depict the struggle between the old order and the new against a background of so-called Christmas snow. You could carry through to its conclusion the theme you traced so remarkably in "The Verge"—remember Tumanov's dream? That's the theme I mean....' And on that night was born the work which..."
The window gave onto a courtyard. The moon was not visible.... No, on second thought, there is a sheen coming from behind a dark chimney over there. Firewood was stacked in the courtyard, covered with a sparkl