《马申卡》是我的第一部小说。我是在柏林开始写这本书的，那是在一九二五年春我结婚后不久，到次年年初完成……众所周知，初次进行创作的人具有把自己的经历写进作品的强烈倾向，他把自己或者一共替代者放进他的第一部小说，这样做与其说是由于现成题材的吸引力，不如说是为了摆脱自我后可以去轻装从事更美好的事情。这是我接受的极少数的一般规则之一。由于俄国非同一般得遥远，由于思乡在人的一生中始终是你痴迷的伴侣，我已习惯于在公众场合忍受这个伴侣的令人肠断的怪癖，我承认自己对这部处女作在情感上的强烈依恋，丝毫不为之感到困窘。 ( Mashenka is my first novel. I started writing this book in Berlin, shortly after my marriage in the spring of 1925, and I finished it by the beginning of the following year……It is well known that the writer who writes for the first time has a strong tendency to put his own work into his work, that is to say, he would put himself or a substitute into his first novel, doing so is more out of the intention that get rid of our inner heart and carry out more wonderful things at ease, than the attractiveness of ready-made material. And this is one of a few general rules I could accept. Because of the extraordinary distance of Russia, and nostalgia has always been an obsessive companion in your life, I have become accustomed to enduring the abominable eccentricity of this partner in public, and I admit that I am emotionally attached to this virgin without any embarrassment. )