The Eye

The EyeSynopsis: The nameless narrator, a suicide by pistol shot after having been humiliated and caned by the husband of his mistress, almost immediately begins a new, nightmarish incarnation. The scene is laid in post-World War I Berlin. It is a life peopled by émigrés from Communist Russia: the bookseller Vikentiy Lvovich Weinstock; jovial Khrushchov and his wife Evgenia; her sister Vanya; Dr. Marianna Nikolaevna; Roman Bogdanovich, an old family friend; Mukhin, the betrothed of Vanya; Vanya'...