Introduction...................................................................................... 4

1. Short Biography of the Writer...................................................... 5

2. The Title of the Work and the History of its Creation (if any). Description of the Main Characters and the Plot......................................... 8

Conclusion (Your Opinion of the Work)........................................ 14

Introduction

Nabokov's Lolita (1955), his most noted novel in English, was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. He was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times.

Nabokov was an expert lepidopterist and composer of chess problems.

Conclusion (Your Opinion of the Work)

The novel "Gift" is called metaromanom. First of all, it is necessary to explain what is it? There is a simple explanation: this is prose in prose, that is, the work is, as it were, a story from the author, about what happened to him once and does not violate the style of the novel. Approximately this happens, for example, in the novel of Cervantes "Don Quixote" where the hero reads his memoirs and makes critical remarks, but his memories are told to the reader. In general, this is a peculiar study of the text, its disclosure, which is slow, but not less interesting. In "Dara" this is exactly what happens. The book is written in prose, but with invariable insertions in the form of poems. According to the plot, the main character is the author himself, at least there is a resemblance to the writer himself. So here we have a young man who is fond of poetry, an emigre, the son of a famous person. This same hero removes an apartment in the house of the former prosecutor-anti-Semite, and gets acquainted with the girl-daughter of the master, stepdaughter. Soon it turns out that both, both the hero and the girl love each other, but intimacy still does not happen and the reason for this is the fact that the parents are constantly at home. And for a docile daughter this circumstance is beyond vulgarity. In the novel there are two distinct events - the departure of the parents and the very closeness. The last author brought to the poem. But the fourth chapter of the novel is more striking. It is then that Nabokov starts the "game" in the meta-novel. It's like a "book in a book". In this very chapter Nabokov leads critical remarks about Chernyshevsky. At what it's not just a criticism, it's rather an insulting pomflet in the direction of Chernyshevsky. The author here expressed his own attitude to this person. It is because of the tone of the narrative that this chapter was not published at the first edition.