![]() ![]() The first two apparently misdialed calls are from a girl asking for "Charlie" the story ends when the phone rings for the third time. The story concludes with mysterious telephone calls. After their return home, the husband announces his decision to take him out of the sanatorium. They are informed that he attempted to take his life and they cannot see him now. Plot summary Īn elderly couple tries to visit their mentally ill son in a sanatorium on his birthday. Nabokov returned the title to his original "Signs and Symbols" when republishing the story. In The New Yorker, the story was published under the title "Symbols and Signs", a decision by the editor Katharine White. ![]() " Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York). ![]()
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