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Title: Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Simon Karlinsky, Edmund Wilson ISBN: 0-520-22080-3 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful and irreplacable
Comment: Here in an elegant paperback of modest proportions is a revised edition of the correspondence of two of America's greatest writers, containing a few newly located letters. Edmund Wilson was already an established writer when Nabokov immigrated to this country around 1940, and Wilson's role in introducing Nabokov around and getting him writing assignments and teaching positions in America was crucial to Nabokov at a critical time. The two men write in fascinating manner about literature, life, writing gigs, and life. The correspondence is sad, too, because the two men seem almost willfully to misunderstand each other on such seemingly innnocuous issues as the nature of Russian and English prosody. Also Wilson as an erstwhile Communist was fascinated with Russia, attempted to learn the language, but thought he knew it better than he did, even trying to correct Nabokov who of course was a native speaker, not to mention a great writer, in Russian. Toward the end of their friendship, Wilson published a memoir that revealed his jealousy of Nabokov, and there was a break, only healed when Wilson was near death. Simon Karlinsky has written a wonderful introduction to the correspondence, that may be worth the price of the book in itself. Nabokov thought highly of Karlinsky, and Karlinsky explains the Russian background of early life behind some of the stances of Nabokov that we Americans find it hardest to understand. For example, why did Nabokov refuse any social role to the artist? For writers, for Nabokov or Wilson lovers, and I count myself both, this is an essential and irreplacable book
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating!
Comment: When two opinionated men with such different tastes as Nabokov and Wilson write letters over a twenty year period, the result is going to be exciting. Their arguing about Faulkner and Norman Douglas or the gender of French nouns gives the friendship a bite. And we also see that each got more than friendship out of the relationship--Wilson got lessons in Russian and Nabokov got a boost into the American literary world. A fascinating read.
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Title: Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers ISBN: 0156027755 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 16 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Strong Opinions (Vintage International) by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ISBN: 0679726098 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years by Brian Boyd ISBN: 0691024715 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 11 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by VLADIMIR NABOKOV ISBN: 0679729976 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977 by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Dmitri Nabokov ISBN: 0156936100 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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