The Melancholy of Anatomy
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‘Our Anonymous Shadows’
‘Our Anonymous Shadows’ Vladimir Nabokov was one of the few Russian émigré intellectuals who made it off the continent when the Nazis invaded France in May 1940. Soon after he…