Mary

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Mary is a 1927 psychological novel by Vladimir Nabokov that explores memory, exile, and lost love through the reflections of a Russian émigré in Berlin.

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instanceOf novel
psychological novel
adaptationMedium film
alsoKnownAs Mashenka
author Vladimir Nabokov
authorLaterNationality American
authorNationality Russian
centralConflict tension between past memories and present reality
countryOfOrigin Russia
firstPublicationForm serialized
firstPublicationPlace Paris
firstPublishedIn Sovremennye Zapiski
form prose
genre modernist literature
psychological fiction
hasAdaptation Mary (1976 film)
hasCharacter Alfyorov
Klara
Lev Glebovich Ganin NERFINISHED
Mary
Podtyagin
hasEnglishTranslation Mary (English title)
hasMotif boarding house life
photographs
trains
length short novel
literaryDevice flashback
stream of consciousness
literaryMovement modernism
literarySignificance Nabokov's first published novel
mainCharacter Lev Glebovich Ganin NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective third-person
originalLanguage Russian
originalTitle Mashenka
originalTitleLanguage Russian
plotFocus Ganin's recollections of his first love Mary
life of Russian émigrés in a Berlin boarding house
protagonistNationality Russian
publicationYear 1927
publisher Sovremennye Zapiski (as serial)
settingLocation Berlin
settingTimePeriod 1920s
theme exile
lost love
memory
nostalgia
émigré experience
translatorToEnglish Dmitri Nabokov
Michael Glenny

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Mary (novel) hasTitle Mary
subject linked to: Mary