Letters to Vera
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Letters to Vera
19.99 €
15.99 €
Vladimir and Vera Nabokov lived together for over fifty years - in the literary world this is an amazing example of a happy marriage. They rarely parted for long, and yet in their archive there are more than three hundred letters and notes of Nabokov, from 1923 to 1975. One of the best writers of the twentieth century, brilliant, ironic and exacting Nabokov appears in this book as a tender and caring husband. "...You and I are quite special; no one knows such wonders as we do, and no one loves as much as we do," he wrote in 1924. Vera Evseevna was his first reader, his typist and secretary, and after the writer's death she translated his English works and protected his extensive legacy.
The letters collected in this edition paint a detailed portrait of the young Nabokov: his immediate environment and acquaintances, his literary intentions and reading circle, his leisure time, everyday habits, memories of Russia and Cambridge, plans for the future, etc. In the letters of later years, his love and admiration for his wife, who shared with him both the difficult trials and world fame, remain unchanged.
The letters collected in this edition paint a detailed portrait of the young Nabokov: his immediate environment and acquaintances, his literary intentions and reading circle, his leisure time, everyday habits, memories of Russia and Cambridge, plans for the future, etc. In the letters of later years, his love and admiration for his wife, who shared with him both the difficult trials and world fame, remain unchanged.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Nabokov Corps