Vladimir Nabokov. Vasiliy Shishkov : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Vasiliy Shishkov
Vladimir Nabokov. VASILIY SHISHKOV
THE little I remember about him is centered within the con fines of last spring: the spring of 1939. I had been to some "Evening of Russian Emigre Literature"—one of those boring affairs so current in Paris since the early twenties. As I was quickly descending the stairs (an intermission having given me the opportunity to escape), I seemed to hear the gallop of eager pursuit behind me; I looked back, and this is when I saw him for the first time. From a cou pie of steps above me where he had come to a stop, he said: "My name is Vasiliy Shishkov. I am a poet."
Then he came down to my level—a solidly built young man of an eminently Russian type, thick-lipped and