The Regal Box Book

The Gift is Vladimir Nabokov's best novel written in Russian - voluminous, multifaceted, multilayered, multilevel, and linguistically splendid and most beautiful.
Then, when I fell under the spell of butterflies, something unfolded in my soul and I relived all my father's journeys, as if I myself had made them: in my dreams I saw the winding road, the caravan, the many-hued mountains, and envied my father madly, agonizingly, to the point of tears - hot and violent tears that would suddenly gush out of me at table as we discussed his letters from the road or even at the simple mention of a far, far place.
While reading The Gift I fell under its spell and relived all the hero's emotional experiences: the gift of youth, the gift of love, the gift of talent, the gift of poetry…
Poems are like butterflies - they flutter throughout the entire novel and charm.