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An anthology of alienation from A to Z, Zyxt consists of 24 brief and darkly comic tales of idealism and despair, friendship and self-loathing, murder and madness. An unnamed narrator recounts a series of anecdotes about his dearest friends - a collection of misanthropic academics, misfortunate composers, and melancholy astronomers - that together form a mosaic of parables, fables, and paradoxes for the bitter and disaffected.

Vladimir Nabokov, who rose to international renown as the author of Lolita, also held another, less well known claim to fame: he was the first to introduce crossword puzzles to the Russian-speaking world. As a young exile in Berlin, he earned a precarious living publishing anagrams, chess problems, and word games--"krossvords"--in the pages of the emigre newspaper Rul'. Collected here are 35 puzzles from Rul', together with translations and de...