Life's Sequel

Abstract

Nabokov's first, and atypical, American story, "The Assistant Producer," ends almost as soon as the author runs out of the "real life" material. This article supplies a continuation based on documents recently discovered by a Russian researcher, mostly letters of General Miller (the General Fedchenko of the story) from his cell in the N.K.V.D. prison, where he spent twenty months after his abduction and before his execution.