Letters to Véra - Hardcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307593363 ISBN 13: 9780307593368

Verlag: Knopf, 2015

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"It is the prose itself that provides the lasting affirmation. The unresting responsiveness; the exquisite evocations of animals and of children; the way that everyone he comes across is minutely -individualized; the detailed visualizations of soirees and street scenes; the raw-nerved susceptibility to weather and underlying it all the lavishness, the freely offered gift, of his divine energy." --Martin Amis, The New York Times Book Review (front page)

"A self-portrait of the young Vladimir unvarnished by Nabokovian irony. The earliest letters, intoxicated with language and desire, are intoxicating to read . . . A lifetime of scholarship informs this massive tome." --Judith Thurman, The New Yorker

"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." --Keziah Weir, 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." --Peter Tonguette, 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.'" --David Lipsky, Harper's Magazine

Reseña del editor:

The letters of the great writer to his wife—gathered here for the first time—chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work.

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight in life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, 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. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything—animals, people, speech, the landscapes and cityscapes he encountered—and learn of the poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays and translations on which he worked ceaselessly. This delicious volume contains twenty-one photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters themselves and the puzzles and doodles Vladimir often sent to Véra. 

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• Verlag: Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0307593363
• ISBN 13: 9780307593368
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 864