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Nabokov lights one lamp after another for Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy — then a student asks about the sky outside the window. Everyone knows whose name it deserves now.

Transmigrated into the golden age of Russian letters, a wannabe poet sets out to occupy every shelf the canon has left empty. The salon duels, the censorship offices, the arguments with Dostoevsky — literature history retold as conquest fiction.