Carrousel (booklet)

Carrousel is a booklet published in 1987 containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for "Karussel", a Russian cabaret.

[1] The only known previous appearance of these three texts had been within the second issue of a trilingual (German, French, English) brochure, Karussel – Carousal – Carrousel, published in Berlin in 1923 as the prospectus for "Karussel", a Russian theatre travelling to Berlin.

[2][3] There have been two editions, both designed by Bram de Does and published in 1987 by Spectatorpers in Aartswoud (the Netherlands).

The publisher's note to the first edition explains the reason for the two editions: a detailed "Introductory Note" by Dmitri Nabokov, the author's son, had arrived too late for inclusion in the first.

The first edition – of which Michael Juliar has stated (without explanation) that "Thirty or so copies survive" – is a paperback that was not offered for sale; the revised edition was made available in hardbound and paperback versions.