This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. You have requested 'on-the-fly' machine translation of selected content from our databases. She frequently complains about the 'servitudes of fame,' and, at the end of their lives, she arranges for them to withdraw to Montreux, a quiet Swiss lakeside village where they.

Her activity became even more tireless in the wake of Lolita, when Vladimir was constantly besieged by the media. She took care as well of all the practical details of their daily life, of which Nabokov himself was completely incapable. She typed and often edited, corrected, and even translated her husband's writings and also carried on negotiations with publishers. This success was promoted by Vera herself.

The Nabokovs, after the sensational success of Lolita (1955), finally attained financial and social security. Vera evokes emotionally their nomadic existence and their efforts to establish a permanent address. Many of them were able to reach the United States and become citizens. Their lives throw light also on one of the significant problems of our time, that of the millions of refugees who fled from communist Russia, from Nazi Germany, and from France during the German occupation. STACY SCHIFF'S SENSITIVE, richly documented biography celebrates the lifelong love of two extraordinary people: Vera, who tirelessly devoted herself to the service of her 'incomparable genius' of a husband and Vladimir Nabokov, her late husband, who adored her and constantly alluded to her throughout his work.

Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.Stacy Schiff. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine-a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vladimir Nabokov-the émigré author of Lolita Pale Fire and Speak, Memory -wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both “monumental” ( The Boston Globe ) and “utterly romantic” ( New York magazine), Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs.

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