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Nov 8, 2015 · On May 8, 1923, Véra Slonim and Vladimir Nabokov met at a charity ball, or so he recalled. Schiff sets their meeting on a bridge, “over a chestnut-lined canal.”
Mar 5, 2021 · Long before most of her husband’s readers, Véra Nabokov understood the novel’s title character not as a nymph but as a tragic heroine. Photograph by Carl Mydans / The LIFE Picture Collection ...
Jun 28, 2018 · Into this absence steps Adrienne Celt’s Invitation to a Bonfire, a novel that imagines an affair between a young Russian refugee, Zoya Andropova, and a Nabokov-like novelist, Leo (Lev) Orlov; Lev’s wife is Vera, without the accent.Celt introduces intrigue of a more immediate sort—a murder; a second death that occurs under “hotly debated circumstances”—but the novel’s true ...
Apr 8, 2014 · The rarity of spouses like Vladimir Nabokov's, who dedicated her life to supporting his career, may be hindering gender parity in literature.
Dec 3, 2014 · Long before Vladimir Nabokov (April 22, 1899–July 2, 1977) became a sage of literature, Russia’s most prominent literary émigré, and a man of widely revered strong opinions, the most important event of his life took place: 24-year-old Vladimir met 21-year-old Véra.She would come to be not only his great love and wife for the remaining half century of his life, but also one of creative ...
May 8, 2015 · On May 8, 1923, a young woman appeared before a young man — an emerging poet — at an émigré charity ball in Berlin. Wearing a black Harlequin demi-mask she refused to lower, she proceeded to produce a verse from one of his poems, which she had clipped from the Russian liberal daily Rul’ some months earlier and committed to memory.
Nov 10, 2015 · Nabokov’s father was a distinguished liberal statesman (described with memorable bitterness in Trotsky’s “History of the Russian Revolution”); and he was semi-accidentally murdered by ...
by; Dean Flower ; It is notoriously difficult to talk about the narrator of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin because he is both the novel’s omniscient author and a character in his own story, neither one of which is Nabokov himself in propria persona.Here is a fairly typical example of his manner, as he introduces Pnin’s ex-wife, the heartless Liza:
Nov 4, 2015 · The following is from Letters to Vera, a collection of letters from Vladimir Nabokov to his wife.Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia and married Vera Slonim in 1925. In 1940, he became a refugee in the United States, where he wrote his most famous works: Bend Sinister, Lolita, Pnin, and Pale Fire.Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland in 1977.
