The Visit to the Museum is a short story by notable Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. - AsNotedIn
SEVERAL years ago a friend of mine in Paris - a person with oddities, to put it mildly - learning that I was going to spend two or three days at Montisert, asked me to drop in at the local museum where there hung, he was told, a portrait of his grandfather by Leroy. Smiling and spreading out his hands, he related a rather vague story to which I confess I paid little attention, partly because I do not like other people's obtrusive affairs, but chiefly because I had always had doubts about my friend's capacity to remain this side of fantasy.Vladimir Nabokov, The Visit to the Museum
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| 1963/03/01 | Vladimir Nabokov | Author | Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov, "The Visit to the Museum" by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Esquire magazine. | ||||
| 1963/03/01 | Esquire | Publisher | Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov, "The Visit to the Museum" by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Esquire magazine. |
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| Definition | Abyss | a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm | |
| Art Material | Carmine | natural organic dyestuff made from the dried bodies of the female cochineal insect, crocus cacti, which lives on various cactus plants in Mexico and in Central and South America | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Clothing | Frock coat | a man's double-breasted, long-skirted coat, now worn chiefly on formal occasions | |
| Museum Type | Museum | a large collection of objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Definition | Peregrinations | a journey, especially a long or meandering one | |
| Vision aid | Pince-nez | style of eye glasses that are supported by pinching the bridge of the nose without earpieces | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Art Type | Short Story | short form narrative fiction | |
| Weather | Snow | atmospheric water vapor frozen into light white crystal flakes | |
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| Original Language: | Russian | ||
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