The Leonardo

This article is about the short story by Vladimir Nabokov. For the museum, see The Leonardo (Salt Lake City). For the skyscraper in Johannesburg's Sandton area, see The Leonardo (Sandton).

"The Leonardo" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov in Berlin in the summer of 1933.[1][2] It was first published as Korolyyok in Posledniye Novosti in Paris the same year, and in 1956 as part of the collection Vesna v Fialte. After its translation into English by the author and his son Dmitri Nabokov it was incorporated into the collection A Russian Beauty and Other Stories and published in 1971.

  1. ^ Petty, Chapel Louise (1979). "A Comparison of Hawthorne's "Wakefield" and Nabokov's "the Leonardo": Narrative Commentary and the Struggle of the Literary Artist". Modern Fiction Studies. 25 (3): 499–507. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26282315.
  2. ^ Galef, David (2000). "Nabokov in Fat City". Nabokov Studies. 6 (1): 51–56. doi:10.1353/nab.2011.0059. ISSN 1548-9965.