Reading "The Return of Chorb," one might be tempted to ask, "Chorb, what the heck are you doing?" It’s a fair enough question. The guy has just buried his wife in the south of France but left...
Nabokov skillfully characterizes the Kellers as big pains in the (you-know-what). Of course, we feel horribly bad for their situation (their daughter has died, and as far as they know their son-in-...
Much like the lackey character, the prostitute isn’t three-dimensional. We don’t really know anything about her, and quite frankly, we don’t care. Neither does Chorb; he’s s...
Much like the prostitute, we don’t know much about the lackey, and he really doesn’t matter. He’s there as a part of the plot and so that he can deliver that killer last line to t...
