Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and OtherThis book traces the evolution of Vladimir Nabokov's prose fiction from the mid 1920s to the late 1930s. While individual works by Nabokov have attracted extensive commentary, the precise contours of Nabokov's development as a writer of fiction have received little attention. Julian Connolly traces this development by focusing on a crucial subject: the relationship between self and other in its various forms (including character to character,