Tamamono / Original Title: Original Title: (Na Bokofu Collection)

[Machine Translation] The Gift" ( 1938). Fyodor is a young man of letters who has just published his first book of poems after defecting from Russia to Berlin. While earning a living as a private tutor, Fyodor attends literary salons to train as a writer, but the response to his book of poems is poor, and he gives up on an attempt to write a biography of his father. However, when he moves out, he falls in love with Gina, the daughter of a lodger, and begins work on a critical biography of Chernyshevsky, a radical thinker of the 19th century. The Artists' Novels," a collection of Nabokov's Russian-language writings that includes autobiographical elements. The Butterfly of My Father. Fyodor, the protagonist of "The Gift," is the narrator of this short story, a sort of essay, in which he remembers his father's achievements as a lepidopterist. As Fyodor describes the idealistic appeal of his father's butterfly catalogs and deciphers his father's new theory of taxonomy, he begins to form an image of his late father. It is widely believed that the book was intended to be published alongside a volume of "The Gift," but it was left unfinished and published by his son Dmitrii after Nabokov's death.

「賜物」(1938)。フョードルはロシアからベルリンに亡命し、初の詩集を出版したばかりの文学青年。家庭教師で糊口をしのぎつつ、文学サロンに顔を出し、作家修行に励むのだが、詩集の反応は薄く、父の伝記を書こうとしては断念する。しかし転居を機に下宿先の娘ジーナと恋仲になり、19世紀の急進的思想家、チェルヌィシェフスキーの評伝に取りかかる。ナボコフの自伝的要素を含んだ、ロシア語時代の集大成となる「芸術家小説」。「父の蝶」。「賜物」の主人公フョードルが語り手となり、鱗翅学者としての父親の功績を偲ぶ、なかばエッセイのような短篇小説。父が編纂した蝶類図鑑の理想的なまでの魅力を語り、父が提唱した新たな分類学の理論を解読しながら、フョードルは亡き父の像を浮かび上がらせてゆく。「賜物」の単行本に並録する予定で執筆されたという見方が有力だが、未完成のまま遺され、ナボコフの死後、息子のドミートリイによって発表された。