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Napisannyĭ v Berline "Sogli͡adataĭ" (1930) - odno iz samykh zagadochnykh i ostroumnykh russkikh proizvedeniĭ Vladimira Nabokova, v kotorom proi͡avilisʹ vse osnovnye originalʹnye cherty zrelogo stili͡a pisateli͡a. Po odnoĭ iz vozmozhnykh traktovok, boleznenno samoli͡ubivyĭ geroĭ ėtogo metafizicheskogo detektiva, okazavshisʹ vne privychnogo kruga veshcheĭ i obstoi͡atelʹstv, nachinaet vosprinimatʹ deĭstvitelʹnostʹ i sobstvennoe "i͡a" skvozʹ prizmu potustoronnego opyta. Realʹnostʹ bolʹshe ne kazhetsi͡a nezyblemoĭ, vozmozhno potomu, chto "vse, chto za smertʹi͡u, estʹ v luchshem sluchae falʹsifikat͡sii͡a, - kak govorit geroĭ nabokovskogo rasskaza "Terra Incognita", - naspekh skleennoe podobie zhizni, meblirovannye komnaty nebytii͡a". Otobrannye Nabokovym dvenadt͡satʹ rasskazov byli napisany v 1930-1935 gg. , oni raspolozheny v tom pori͡adke, kotoryĭ opredelil avtor, iskhodi͡a iz soobrazheniĭ ikh vnutrennikh svi͡azeĭ i tematicheskoĭ ili stilisticheskoĭ blizosti k "Sogli͡adatai͡u". Nastoi͡ashchee izdanie vosproizvodit sostav avtorskogo sbornika, izdannogo v Parizhe v 1938 g.

Written in Berlin, The Spy (1930) is one of the most mysterious and witty Russian works by Vladimir Nabokov, which revealed all the main original features of the writer's mature style. According to one possible interpretation, the painfully narcissistic hero of this metaphysical detective story, finding himself outside the usual range of things and circumstances, begins to perceive reality and his own self through the prism of otherworldly experience. Reality no longer seems to be immutable, perhaps because "everything beyond death is, at best, a fabrication,“ as the hero of Nabokov's short story Terra Incognita says, ”a hastily pieced together semblance of life, a furnished room of nothingness." The twelve short stories selected by Nabokov were written in 1930-1935. They are arranged in the order determined by the author, based on considerations of their internal connections and thematic or stylistic proximity to the "Spy." This edition reproduces the composition of the author's collection, published in Paris in 1938.