THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 23RD AUGUST 2021: DAY 512

​'The Constant Library',  Volume XXXIII:
​"Terra Incognita, Vladimir Nabokov".

​'The Constant Library',  Volume XXXIII:
​"Terra Incognita, Vladimir Nabokov".

"The idea for 'The Constant Library' follows on from a recent conversation considering which books had, and continue to have, the greatest affect my life in a variety of different ways. These are the books I can't live without and whenever possible I have a copy of with me wherever I travel in the world; my 'Constant Library."

I can't believe that I haven't posted this book in The Constantly Library previously; perhaps it is that, although I do possess a physical copy of this book, it is one that I carry with me constantly in the form of my e-book library.  'Terra Incognita' is actually a short short, one of three in this slim volume along with 'Spring in Fialta' and 'The Doorbell'. All three stories have great strengths and exhibit Nabokov's writing at it's best, well, perhaps after 'Pale Fire', mixing his love of the uncanny with his natural bent for the everyday. 

For me this is the perfect Constant Library volume, it has been for many years one of my "go-to" books, along with 'the King in Yellow' and 'The Skeleton's Holiday', which I turn once again to whenever I am in need of literary refreshment. I cant recommend it highly enough.