The Book Depository Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov
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Description: Letters to Vera : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141192246 : : 04 Feb 2016 : No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story. This book features these letters that tell us much about the man and the writer. The Book Depository Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Review: Vera Nabokov met her husband at a masked ball: first, she intrigued him with a masterful understanding of his poems then she intrigued him by refusing to let down her mask. It was the beginning of a relationship that would span much of the twentieth century. Through the Nazi takeover of their land of exile (Vera was Jewish), to their flight to England, to their finding a new home in America, you can count on Vladimir writing to Vera expressing his love and telling her to cheer up. The emphasis on Vera smiling was because she suffered from morbid depression. In fact, she spent much of their first year of their marriage in a sanitarium. Because of this, the mask never falls from Vera. She burned all her correspondence to Vladimir. And so, what one has is a record of a doting husband and a rather enigmatic wife. The letters do dispel the notion that Nabokov was anything like the protagonists of his novels. And it is interesting depiction of a couple caught in the flow of the twentieth century. But most of it could have stayed private. The repeated calls for Vera to break out of her depression tend to merge into one in the reader’s mind short of any response from Vera. And the insights into literature are more scattered than central to the text. Those who can’t get enough of Nabokov will enjoy. Those merely interested in a twentieth century luminary will find little of lasting interest. A record of true love which perhaps was better kept within the writer’s family than published.
