Vladimir Nabokov. El ayudante de dirección : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. El ayudante de dirección
Vladimir Nabokov. THE ASSISTANT PRODUCER
There was no attempt on the part of the committee to stop him, and this for two reasons. First, the chairman, driven to exasperation by the old man's conspicuous behavior, had gone out for a moment and given a certain order. In the second place, a medley of strange doubts was beginning to unnerve some of the organizers, so that there was a complete hush when the old man placed his elbows on the reading stand.
"And this is fame," he said in such a husky voice that from the back rows there came cries of "Gromche, gromcbe!" ("Louder, louder!")
"I am saying that this is fame," he repeated, grimly peering over his spectacles at the audience