Vladimir Nabokov. Vasiliy Shishkov : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Vasiliy Shishkov
Vladimir Nabokov. VASILIY SHISHKOV
publica tion; the others—an ample female (a translatress, I believe, or perhaps a theosophist) with a gloomy little husband resembling a black bre loque; her old mother; two seedy gentlemen in the kind of ill-fitting suits that the emigre cartoonist Mad gives to his characters; and an energetic-looking blond fellow, our host's chum—were unknown to me. Upon observing that Shishkov kept cocking an anxious ear-observing, too, how resolutely and joyfully he clapped the table and rose, before realizing that the doorbell he had heard pertained to an other apartment—I ardently hoped for the celebrity's arrival, but the old boy never turned up.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said Shishkov an