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 · English. By (author) Gail Jones. Share. LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE. We travel to find ourselves; to run away from ourselves. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in , when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin/5().  · Written by Vladimir Nabokov in , his A Guide to Berlin is a short story; it was translated into English with the help of his son, Dmitri Nabokov and included in a collection of short stories - Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (published ) Aussie author Gail Jones has written of six travellers who came together in Berlin through their mutual love of Nabokov’s work – Victor, /5.  · A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones review – a shallow tale of Nabokov-reading expats. Jones adopts the great novelist’s prose style and precise word choice, but abandons his piercing Author: Jessa Crispin.

A Guide to Berlin Gail Jones. $ Paperback Out of Stock - Order Now (usually dispatches in 7 days) LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE. We travel to find ourselves; to run away from ourselves. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in , when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. I nearly didn't read this book. When I heard about the Nabokovian inspiration for it, I was immediately daunted. Confession: I have not read Nabokov. I understand his writing is sublime, and that may be the problem. I'm intimidated. Therefore, when I heard that Gail Jones' A Guide to Berlin was named after one of Nabokov's short stories and contained. Download. Innocent Abroad: Review of Gail Jones 'A Guide to Berlin'. Susan Lever. to Berlin," first published in and not translated from Russian until Jones's central character, a young Australian woman called Cass, finds herself drawn into a group of Nabokov fans after she is observed photographing the house in Nestorstrasse, Berlin.

A Guide to Berlin is a novel by Australian author Gail Jones. With the same name as Vladimir Nabokov's short story A Guide to Berlin, Jones' novel follows the main character, a young Australian woman named Cass, as she travels to Berlin and meets with five other travellers in the city. The six members form a literary group, all inspired at one point in their lives by Nabokov's life and works, and share their personal stories which they call speak-memories. Their recollection in Jones’s novel impresses the insight that Nabokov, Benjamin, Sebald and A Guide to Berlin share: the potential of metaphorical language to discern patterns in contingency and coincidence. It seems therefore prosaic to evoke Benjamin’s snowflakes to draw attention to the weather that shapes the world of A Guide to Berlin. Speaking about the weather is an unpromising subject and as Cass acknowledges at one point in the novel, the topic is entirely ‘unoriginal’. A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones: a curate’s egg of a novel Ap BookerTalk 14 Comments “A Curate’s Egg” is a phrase that originated in a cartoon published in the satirical magazine Punch in