Vera nabokov biography

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Russian editor and translator Vera Nabokov (1902–1991) was married for 52 years to noted novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), and although she never discussed her role in his creative life, many have credited her as his muse.

    The Enduring Enigma of Véra Nabokov - Literary Hub

Twenty-three years after her death, Vera Nabokov remains a revered figure in capital “L” Literature—not necessarily for her own work, but for devoting herself fully to that of her husband, the.


  • Item 2 of 10 His father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, was a prominent opponent of anti-semitism in Tsarist Russia and wrote articles deploring the Kishinev pogrom. [2] Vladimir Dmitrievich was killed in 1922 in Berlin, during an assassination attempt on the life of politician Pavel Milyukov. Vera and Vladimir were married on 15 April 1925.
  • Item 6 of 10 Despite her prominent role, Vera Nabokov was a private person, self-effacing in regard to her husband's career and reticent about their life together. As Vladimir's status as one of the 20th century's greatest writers became established in the 1960s, a large flood of biographical and scholarly studies of his life and work began to appear.
  • Item 4 of 10 The rarity of spouses like Vladimir Nabokov's, who dedicated her life to supporting his career, may be hindering gender parity in literature.

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  • “The more you leave me out,” Véra Nabokov told Brian Boyd while he was researching his two-volume biography of her husband, Vladimir Nabokov, “the closer to the truth you’ll be.” Not that biographers could be trusted to follow her dictum: Véra destroyed all her letters to her husband; she blacked out her contributions to joint [ ].

    • The Legend of Vera Nabokov: Why Writers Pine for a Do-It-All ...

    Véra and Vladimir Nabokov were married for fifty-two years—a record, apparently, among literary couples—and their intimacy was nearly hermetic. When they were apart, he pined for her.

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      Stacy Schiff's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife of author Vladimir Nabokov (LOLITA).


    Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage

    Véra Nabokov was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works.

    Vera Nabokova (January 5, 1902 — April 7, 1991), Russian ...

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  • Véra Yevseyevna Nabokova was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works. 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.
  • Schiff follows Vera Nabokov from her affluent St. Petersburg childhood, through the dramatic escape from Bolshevik Russia, to the streets of Weimar Berlin. In the late nineteen-sixties, Andrew Field proposed to write Nabokov’s biography. Vladimir and Véra both welcomed the project, though they were wary of Field’s prying, and Boyd speculates.
  • Véra Yevseyevna Nabokova was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works. “Without my wife,” Vladimir Nabokov once noted, “I wouldn't have written a single novel.” At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Véra (Mrs. 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.
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