The definitive edition of Nabokov's stories prepared by his son Dmitri. Sixty-eight Nabokovian delicatessens.

A man writing in his office is interrupted by a forest elf, a concert pianist prepares to end his career, a barber shaves the man who tortured him, a timid dreamer makes a pact with him. Devil ...

The sixty-eight stories by Vladimir Nabokov that are included in this definitive edition of his short story work, prepared by his son Dmitri, allow you to enjoy his immeasurable literary virtuosity: his thematic and formal pirouettes, his disturbing ambiguities, his elegant handling of the language, of the presence of themes – such as the double – that fascinated him and of the many places that left their mark on him: the Russia of his childhood, the England of his student years, the Germany and France of his exile. and then those United States that he always observed with the sagacious and not at all complacent European gaze.

The incorporation of this book to the Anagrama catalog allows us to add one more piece to the puzzle of Nabokov's rich literary production, of which we have published the bulk of his novelistic work. And, as in novels, the inexhaustible inventiveness of one of the truly essential writers of the 20th century shines in these stories.

«Vladimir Nabokov's stories are his most accessible work. They offer immediate gratification to the reader regardless of whether he or she has ventured into the most complex and intricate Nabokov writing or into the author's personal history” (Dmitri Nabokov);

«One of the most classic and innovative story collections that a contemporary can enjoy. One of the most coherent and without a doubt one of the most risky and ambitious” (Javier Marías); «What surprising beauty in the phrases, turns of thought, brilliant displays of wit and depth of feeling... Nabokov's gift consists of recreating paradise wherever he gazes» (John Updike); "The variety, strength and richness of Nabokov's intuitions is unrivaled in modern fiction" (Martin Amis).