Vladimir Nabokov. Signos y símbolos : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Signos y símbolos
Vladimir Nabokov. SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
e of years had elapsed, and now they were quite old. Her drab gray hair was done anyhow. She wore cheap black dresses. Unlike other women of her age (such as Mrs. Sol, their next-door neighbor, whose face was all pink and mauve with paint and whose hat was a cluster of brookside flowers), she presented a naked white countenance to the fault-finding light of spring days. Her husband, who in the old country had been a fairly successful businessman, was now wholly dependent on his brother Isaac, a real American of almost forty years standing. They seldom saw him and had nicknamed him "the Prince." That Friday everything went wrong. The underground train lost its life current between t