Gliding along to the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Отчаяние [Otchaianie / Despair] was Nabokov’s seventh novel in Russian. He wrote it in 1932 but it wasn’t published as a book until 1936 by Petropolis in Berlin. It had been serialized in Современные записки [Sovremennye zapiski / Contemporary annals], in Feb–Oct 1934 (issues 44–46). Nabokov translated it into English twice, first for the John Long imprint of Hutchinson in London in 1937 and then for Putnam’s in 1966 in New York. It is A15 in the 1986 bibliography.

Making headway with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Подвиг [Podvig / Glory] was Nabokov’s fifth novel in Russian. He wrote it in 1930 and the book was published in book form towards the end of 1932 by Sovremennye Zapiski. Excerpts had previously appeared eight times in various émigré newspapers in 1931 and 1932 and in its entirety in the literary journal Современные записки [Sovremennye zapiski / Contemporary annals] in 1931. The English translation, Glory, was the last of his novels that Nabokov translated. He said that the Russian title, “Podvig”, translates literally as “gallant feat” or “high deed”. But for the English language version, he preferred the evocative “Glory”. It was published by McGraw-Hill in 1971. It is A13 in the 1986 bibliography.

Progressing with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Приглашение на казнь [[Priglashenie na kazn’/Invitation to a Beheading]] was Nabokov’s penultimate novel in Russian. He temporarily dropped work on Dar and began writing Priglashenie na kazn’ in Berlin in June 1934. He worked very quickly, finishing it by the end of the year. It was serialized in Sovremennye Zapiski from June 1935 to March 1936 (Nos. 58–60) and published in book form by Dom Knigi in Paris in November 1938. The English translation, Invitation to a Beheading, was published by Putnam’s in 1959. It is A16 in the 1986 bibliography.