Vladimir and Vera Nabokov have lived together for over fifty years - for the literary world this is a rare example of a happy marriage. They rarely parted for a long time, and yet more than three hundred letters from Vladimir Nabokov to his wife, from No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in , Vladimir's letters to his beloved Véra form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story, and they are 4/5(). Vladimir and Vera Nabokov have lived together for over fifty years - for the literary world this is a rare example of a happy marriage. They rarely parted for a long time, and yet more than three hundred letters from Vladimir Nabokov to his wife, from
Véra Nabokov. Véra Yevseyevna Nabokova (Russian: Ве́ра Евсе́евна Набо́кова; 5 January - 7 April ) was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works. Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov, review: 'beauty out of the banal'. Vladimir Nabokov's wife, Véra, was his first reader and his aesthetic barometer, as revealed by his passionate letters. Many of these are accompanied by letters to the author from the correspondents and between the correspondents and the author's wife Véra Nabokov. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from to , between various correspondents including Véra Nabokov, Matthew Bruccoli, Edmund Wilson, George Plimpton, and Prins Prins.
From their first encounter in , Vladimir’s letters to Véra form a narrative arc that tells a half-century-long love story, one that is playful, romantic, pithy and memorable. At the same time, the letters tell us much about the man and the writer. Letters to Vera Quotes Showing of “It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”. ― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera. Almost every one of the letters to Véra includes an effusion of ardor of the sort that Nabokov mocks when fatuous, infatuated Charlotte Haze writes to Humbert Humbert. “Oh, my love, my sweet.
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