Vladimir Nabokov. Solus Rex : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Solus Rex
Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
the prepared frame without touching up or omitting anything. Much of it was so new, and individualized so precisely the commonplaces of long-coarsened rumor, that at first the masses did not realize who had sat for the picture. Very soon, however, the daily reports in the papers began to stir up quite exceptional interest among such readers as had caught on, and people who used to pay up to twenty kruns to attend the trial now did not spare five hundred or more.
The initial idea had been generated in the womb of the prokura-tura (magistracy). The oldest judge in the capital took a fancy to it. All one needed was to find a person sufficiently upright not to be confused with the prototype