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LESZEK ENGELKING S O M E R E M A R K S O N T H E D E V I L I N N A B O K O V ' S " T H E V I S I T T O T H E M U S E U M " "The Visit to the Museam" (Poseshchenie muzeia), a short story first pub- lished in 1939, recounts a devilish trick in which the narrator is mysteriously removed from France to his native Russia, forbidden to him, an exile.l 1 Let us recall the plot. The narrator plans an autumn visit to the town o f Montisert in the south o f France. A friend o f his, a fellow emigre, wants to buy a portrait of his grandfather, which, he has heard, hangs in the Montisert museum, and asks for help in the affair. The narrator, n o t very eager to carry out the request, inadvertently finds himself at the modest museum, and sees the portrait. He tries to buy it from the museum director who maintains, however, that the picture is not in the museum but agrees to sell it if he
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1985
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