Mary (novel)

Mary (novel)
For the eighteenth century novel by Mary Wollstonecraft, see Mary: A Fiction.
Mary  
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1st edition (Russian)
Author(s) Vladimir Nabokov
Original title Машенька (Mashen'ka)
Translator Vladimir Nabokov and Michael Glenny
Country Russia
Language Russian
Genre(s) novel
Publisher Slovo
McGraw Hill (English)
Publication date 1926
Published in
English		 1970
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0679726209 (recent paperback edition)
OCLC Number 19920697
Dewey Decimal 891.73/42 20
LC Classification PG3476.N3 M33 1989
Followed by King, Queen, Knave

Mary (Russian: Машенька, Mashen'ka), is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by the Russian language publisher "Slovo".

Contents

Plot introduction

It is the story of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré, displaced by the Russian Revolution. Ganin is now living in a boarding house in Berlin, where he discovers that his long-lost first love, Mary is now the wife of the rather unappealing boarder next door, and that she will be joining her husband soon. Ganin contrives a complex scheme in order to reunite with Mary, who he believes still loves him. The eponymous Mary never appears in the present of the novel, but only in Ganin's reminiscences.

Plot summary

Characters in "Mary"

Lev Glebovich Ganin

Aleksey Ivanovich Alfyorov

Lydia Nikolaevna Dorn

Lyudmila

Klara

Anton Sergeyevich Podtyagin

Mary Alfyorov

Major themes

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

Film

A film adaptation titled Maschenka after the original Russian title, was released in 1987. The film, directed by John Goldschmidt with screenplay by John Mortimer, starred Cary Elwes as Ganin and Irina Brook as Maschenka. John Goldschmidt won the Cine De Luca Award for directing 'Maschenka" at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.

Publication history

  • 1970, USA, McGraw-Hill
  • 1989, USA, Vintage International ISBN 0679726209, Pub Date November 1989

English Translation and Authorial Changes

The novel first appeared in English in 1970 in a translation by Michael Glenny "in collaboration with the author." According to Nabokov, "I realized as soon as [we] started that our translation should be as faithful to the text as I would have insisted on its being had that text not been mine."[1] He further stated that "The only adjustments I deemed necessary are limited to brief utilitarian phrases in three or four pages alluding to routine Russian matters ...[and] the switch of seasonal dates in Ganin's Julian Calendar to those of the Gregorian style in general use."[2]

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Notes and references

  1. ^ Vladimir Nabokov, Mary New York: Vintage International, 1989. p. xiv.
  2. ^ Vladimir Nabokov, Mary New York: Vintage International, 1989. p. xv.

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