Vladimir Nabokov. El reencuentro
Vladimir Nabokov. THE REUNION
What would he talk about to his brother? Should he tell him, casually and lightheartedly, about his adventures in the south of Russia at the time of the civil war? Should he jokingly complain about his present (unbearable, stifling) poverty? Or pretend to be a broadminded man who was above emigre resentment, and understood... understood what? That Serafim could have preferred to my poverty, my purity, an active collaboration... and with whom, with whom! Or should he, instead, attack him, shame him, argue with him, even be acidly witty? "Grammatically, Leningr