Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stacy Schiff
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: c. 1923-1977
- Setting: Europe and the United States
- Principal Characters: Véra Evseevna Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov, Dolores Haze
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Masks, Nazism or Nazis, Colleges or universities
- Locales: Europe, United States
Stacy Schiff describes her latest biography, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage, as “the story of a woman, a man, and a marriage.” More accurately, it is the story of Vladimir Nabokov’s married life. It joins five other, less covert, biographical studies of the Russian-born author of Lolita (1955): Andrew Field’s trilogy Nabokov: His Life in Art, a Critical Narrative (1967), Nabokov: His Life in Part (1977), and VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov (1986); Brian Boyd’s more scholarly Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian...
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