"The feat" (1930, publ . 1931-1932) - the fourth Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov - tells the story of a young Russian immigrant with Swiss roots and an exotic name Martyn Edelweiss, who by the will of fate found himself in a foreign land . The life path of the hero of the book runs almost all over Europe, partly coinciding with the author’s emigrant routes and making you recall the ancient meaning of the word “feat” travel, travel, movement. Alternately in Greece, England, Germany, France and Switzerland , Martyn stubbornly searches for himself - in creativity , at work, in love, in sports, in various tests of one's own courage, — and in the finale of the novel is decided on the pointless-heroic , Sacrifice , Entering the path of true achievement: He rejects the possibility of a legal return to Russia and secretly, with a risk to life, crosses the Russian border, disappearing into the mysterious twilight of the forest path.