5/10/2023 0 Comments Mrs vladimir nabokov![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These are, above all, love letters, first for Véra alone, later for Véra and their son, Dmitri. In these letters, Nabokov is passionate and vulnerable chivalrous and (sometimes) inconstant a man of his time and one ahead of the historical curve. Saul Bellow once called Nabokov a “cold narcissist,” and Letters to Véra decisively dispels that common misconception. Some time in the late 1960s or early 1970s Véra destroyed virtually all of her letters to Vladimir. In this long-anticipated volume, lovingly edited and translated by Boyd and Olga Voronina, we get a first-hand look at the marriage-at least from one angle. Stacy Schiff told a version of the story of Véra Slonim’s transformation into Mrs. Brian Boyd documented aspects of their marriage in his two-volume biography of Nabokov. Arcing over two continents and several languages, the double story of Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) and Véra Nabokov (1902–1991) is both old fur hat and unworn fedora. Theirs was an artistic marriage, life and text conjoined. “Most of my works have been dedicated to my wife and her picture has often been reproduced by some mysterious means of reflected color in the inner mirrors of my books,” Vladimir Nabokov said in one of his carefully wrought late-life interviews. By Vladimir Nabokov, translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd ![]()
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