It looks different, but is conspecific with the novel and is linked to it by intermediate clines." He called some of his short stories "a diminutive novel" and stressed that the process of writing them is no different than writing novels: "My short stories are produced in exactly the same way as my novels. The latter take a longer time, that's all. On the average a story of ten pages takes me a fortnight to compose, a novel of 200 pages about one year."
Nabokov stated that his fiction expresses his passionate regard for human feelings and morality. Yet, some critics have accused Nabokov of being indifferent to social and political issues of his time, comparing his stories and novels to elegantly constructed, labyrinth-like narratives and riddles. This similarity is largely because of Nabokov's curious ability to combine his passion for literature with his strong interest in chess and in crosswords. Many of Nabokov's stories share the motifs, themes, and techniques of his larger narratives, but because of their hermeneutic nature they are also accessible to general readers with no previous knowledge of his artistic persona.
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