Breaking the News (1935) [Short Story]
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Summary
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Everyone has heard about the tragic death of the nearly deaf widow's son, but no one can successfully tell her the news.
Included in the collection A Russian Beauty and Other Stories.
Original title: Оповещение [Opoveshchenie]
Original languages:
Russian
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Russian Beauty and Other Stories, a (1973) [Collection]
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Notes:
- Nabokov would revisit this theme in a story written in English, "Signs and Symbols," in 1948.
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