Vladimir Nabokov. El círculo : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. El círculo
Vladimir Nabokov. THE CIRCLE
s own hands, varnishing the top and adorning it with a pyro-graphic design; on the table, a photograph of his wife in a velvet fra me—so young, in such a nice dress, with a little pelerine and a corset-belt, charmingly oval-faced (that ovality coincided with the idea of feminine beauty in the 1890s); next to the photograph a crystal paperweight with a mother-of-pearl Crimean view inside, and a cockerel of cloth for wiping pens; and on the wall above, between two casement windows, a portrait of Leo Tolstoy, entirely composed of the text of one of his stories printed in microscopic type. Innokentiy slept on a leathern couch in an adjacent smaller chamber. After a long day in the open air he sl