Vladimir Nabokov. Una mala noticia
Vladimir Nabokov. BREAKING THE NEWS
It was a March day in 1935, and after a rainy dawn, one horizontal section of Berlin was reflected in the other—variegated zigzags intermingling with flatter textures, et cetera. The Chernobylskis, old friends of Eugenia Isakovna, had received the telegram from Paris around seven a.m., and a couple of hours later a letter had come by air mail. The head of the factory office where Misha had worked an nounced that the poor young man had fallen into an elevator shaft from the top floor, and had remained in agony for forty minutes: al though unc