The Gift: Vladimir Nabokov

The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor`s pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor`s elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.