Vera (2011)
“Vladimir Nabokov) 2 THE ROMANTIC AGE Oh my joy, when will we live together, in a beautiful place, with a mountain view, with a dog yapping outside the window? I need so little: a bottle of ink, and a spot of sunshine on the floor—oh, and you. But the last isn’t a small thing at all.
—NABOKOV TO VÉRA SLONIM, AUGUST 19, 1924 1 Here is what she must have known by the time she married him: That he was the most gifted Russian writer of his generation. That he was a man of titanic self-absorption. Th...at he had a certain knack for falling in love. That he had an equivalent lack of ability for taming the practical world. How much of this she knew when she fell in love with him is unclear. On only one aspect of the appeal did she offer comment: “Don’t you think it was more his verse than his face that attracted?” she asked rhetorically. That the verse could have eclipsed the rest of the package says a good deal about Véra Slonim’s commitment to literature; twenty-four-year-old Nabokov, lithe and still dapper and aristocratic-looking, left an impression.MoreLess
—NABOKOV TO VÉRA SLONIM, AUGUST 19, 1924 1 Here is what she must have known by the time she married him: That he was the most gifted Russian writer of his generation. That he was a man of titanic self-absorption. Th...at he had a certain knack for falling in love. That he had an equivalent lack of ability for taming the practical world. How much of this she knew when she fell in love with him is unclear. On only one aspect of the appeal did she offer comment: “Don’t you think it was more his verse than his face that attracted?” she asked rhetorically. That the verse could have eclipsed the rest of the package says a good deal about Véra Slonim’s commitment to literature; twenty-four-year-old Nabokov, lithe and still dapper and aristocratic-looking, left an impression.MoreLess
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