Vera by Stacy Schiff6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() She had a need to do something great with her life. In the three decades that pass before he metamorphoses into the celebrated author of Lolita, Véra proves to be nothing less than his full creative partner. Petersburg childhood, through the dramatic escape from Bolshevik Russia, to the streets of Weimar Berlin, where Véra makes a spectacular entrance into the life of her future husband, then a gifted but struggling writer of Russian verse. Schiff follows Véra Nabokov from her affluent St. In a beautifully limned portrait, Stacy Schiff has now restored her to life. But search for her elsewhere, and the woman to whom the author of Lolita was married for fifty-two years, who carried on his correspondence in his name, fades from view. Open a volume of Nabokov's, and there is Véra on the dedication page, front and center. Vladimir Nabokov) explores a remarkable literary partnership-that of a woman who devoted her life to her husband's art and a man who dedicated his works to his wife. ![]() ![]() WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE “Without my wife,” Vladimir Nabokov once noted, “I wouldn't have written a single novel.”Īt once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Véra (Mrs. ![]()
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