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The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

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after his father's death. The volume consists of the plays 'The Pole' ('Polyus', written 1923), 'The Man from the USSR' ('Chelovek iz SSSR', written 1926), 'The Event' ('Sobytie', written 1938) and 'The Granddad' ('Dedushka').
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The response to this collection has been small compared to the general response to Nabokov's work, due in part to the small proportion of his
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some years earlier. It depicts the deaths of last four members of Scott's crew, on their 1911/1912 expedition to the
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The first production of 'The Pole' was probably in 1996, directed by
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Frank, Siggy (Oct 2007). "Exile in Theatre/Theatre in Exile".
341:. Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Archived from 120:, first published in 1984. The plays were collected and 384:"Books: Gamesman the man from the USSR and other plays" 1002: 970: 945: 913: 819: 787: 769: 625: 618: 540: 459: 452: 89: 81: 73: 63: 53: 43: 33: 235:in October 1924. According to Kanfer's review in 179:. 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Vladimir Nabokov
Dmitri Nabokov
Harcourt Brace
ISBN
978-0-15-156882-6
dramas
Russian
Vladimir Nabokov
translated
Russian
Dmitri Nabokov
blank verse
Rul'
Scott
British Museum
South Pole
Klaus Michael Grüber
Schaubühne
German
Botho Strauß
Paris
Time magazine
canon


"The Man from the USSR and Other Plays"
doi
10.1353/see.2007.0010

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