Vladimir Nabokov (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

At a glance:

  • Author: Vladimir Nabokov
  • First Published: 1989
  • Type of Work: Letters
  • Time of Work: 1923-1977
  • Principal Characters: Vladimir Nabokov, Vera Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov, Katharine A. White, Maurice Girodias, Stanley Kubrick
  • Genres: Nonfiction
  • Subjects: Communism or communists

Vladimir Nabokov was an unusual American writer to say the least. Born in St. Petersburg, prompted to flee Russia after the Revolution, his formal education completed at Cambridge, Nabokov settled in Berlin where he wrote in Russian and gave instruction in English and in tennis. In 1937 he moved to Paris and shortly thereafter began to write a novel in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941). In 1940 the advancing Nazi horde forced Nabokov, his wife, and son Dmitri to flee to the United States. That son, coeditor with Matthew I Bruccoli of this correspondence, chose and...

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