Literature Program Presents
Olga Voronina, Assistant Professor of Russian
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
RKC 103
5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Letters to Véra, Vladimir Nabokov
(Ed. and transl. by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd)
Introduction by Wyatt Mason, Writer in Residence
(Ed. and transl. by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd)
Introduction by Wyatt Mason, Writer in Residence
Superbly edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, these letters reveal Nabokov as a considerable wit, with a gift for terse put-downs and fascination with what remained outside his class and culture – whether it was Greyhound buses in Massachusetts or the New York subway. Now, perhaps for the first time, the Russian writer emerges distinct from the shadows of his biographers, and as one of the most luxoriously besotted writers of all time.
Ian Thomson, “Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov review – scenes from a happy marriage,”
-The Observer, November 9, 2014
Ian Thomson, “Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov review – scenes from a happy marriage,”
-The Observer, November 9, 2014
“… this extraordinary and wonderful collection of letters to his wife restores to us as the virtuoso of prose. They are some of the most rapturous love letters anyone has ever written, love letters from the length of a lifelong marriage; beautiful performances for Véra, Nabokov’s wife, and incidentally for us. The publishers have immediately issued this volume as a Penguin Classic.
I don’t think we will quibble with that.”
Philip Hensher, “Nabokov’s Love Letters are Some of the Most Rapturous Ever Written,”
I don’t think we will quibble with that.”
Philip Hensher, “Nabokov’s Love Letters are Some of the Most Rapturous Ever Written,”
“…meticulously edited . . . Nabokov writing for his first and most important reader . . . this is Nabokov uncut. . . Nabokov comes on strong . . . some remarkable pen portraits…”
Duncan White, “Beauty out of the Banal,”
-Sunday Telegraph, September 21, 2014
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Time: 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: RKC 103