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Letters to Véra
Critic Reviews
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At the same time, the letters reveal much about their author. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything--animals, people, speech, landscapes and cityscapes--and glimpse his ceaseless work on his poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays, and translations. This delightful volume is enhanced by twenty-one photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters and the puzzles and drawings Vladimir often sent to Véra.
With 8 pages of photographs and 47 illustrations in text
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Dec 12nd, 2017
- Pages: 864
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 1.70in - 1.70lb
- EAN: 9780307476586
- Categories: • Literary Figures• Letters• Artists, Architects, Photographers
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About the Author
OLGA VORONINA was deputy director of the Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg and was the Nabokov Estate representative in Russia before receiving a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from Harvard University. She is now assistant professor of Russian and director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Program at Bard College.
BRIAN BOYD, University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, wrote an MA thesis that Vladimir Nabokov called "brilliant" and a PhD thesis that Véra Nabokov thought the best thing written about her husband to date. His biography of Nabokov won awards on four continents; his criticism has been translated into eighteen languages. He has edited Nabokov's English-language novels, autobiography, butterfly writings, and translations from Russian poetry.
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What people are saying
Offline since July 2023
There are days when I adore you just a little more than a human being can adore. - Vladimir Nabokov {Letters to Véra}
what are my desires compared to this light? everything is love and that's all there is to it.
— Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Vera: “and more than anything i want for you to be happy, and it seems to me i could give you this happiness — sunny, simple — but not quite ordinary.”
İstanbul-Viyana-New York
"I love you, my sun, my life, I love your eyes - closed - all the little tails of your thoughts, your stretchy vowels, your whole soul from head to heels. I'm tired, off to bed. I love you." Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra Photography: Jack Garofalo https://t.co/h9AY3TEYxF
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"A self-portrait of the young Vladimir unvarnished by Nabokovian irony. The earliest letters, intoxicated with language and desire, are intoxicating to read." --The New Yorker
"It is the prose itself that provides the lasting affirmation...the lavishness, the freely offered gift, of his divine energy." --Martin Amis, The New York Times Book Review
"Letters to Véra, a five-decade epistolary love story, is like being handed a celebrity's unlocked iPhone. Pry away.... I still hope for Nabokovian romance." --Elle
"A fascinating collection of correspondence.... A wife--and indeed, a son--who could inspire such caring and creative letters as these deserve to be included in Nabokov's literary legacy." --The Christian Science Monitor
"Letters to Véra opens the workshop door and shows us Vladimir not in his accredited hard-shell case of genius but as a soft, vulnerable practicing writer.... Again and again, we see what Charles Kinbote, in Pale Fire, calls the magic of a mind 'perceiving and transforming the world, taking it in and taking it apart, re-combining its elements.'" --Harper's Magazine
What people are saying
Offline since July 2023
There are days when I adore you just a little more than a human being can adore. - Vladimir Nabokov {Letters to Véra}
what are my desires compared to this light? everything is love and that's all there is to it.
— Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Vera: “and more than anything i want for you to be happy, and it seems to me i could give you this happiness — sunny, simple — but not quite ordinary.”