NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time.

Vera Slonim Nabokov may be one of the most difficult women for a biography--she deliberately lived in the shadow of her famous husband. But Stacy Schiff does an amazing job, piecing together Vera's life from stories about her family and her husband Vladimir Nabokov. In particular, I …

In particular, I appreciated two aspects of the book. Schiff follows Vera Nabokov from her affluent St. Petersburg childhood, through the dramatic escape from Bolshevik Russia, to the streets of Weimar Berlin, where Vera makes a spectacular entrance into the life of her future husband, then a gifted but struggling writer of Russian verse. Pris: 196 kr. häftad, 2000. Skickas inom 2-5 vardagar. Köp boken Vera av Stacy Schiff (ISBN 9780375755347) hos Adlibris. Fri frakt.

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—Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol. 1 * * * 2013-12-28 · Nabokov’s Reflection: Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Posted on December 28, 2013 February 23, 2020 Author Samuel Carlisle Posted in Literature , Reviews Of the subjects Stacy Schiff has written about, one, Cleopatra, issued only a single written word that we can presume came directly from her. Schiff puts it slightly differently: “From the list of things Nabokov bragged about never having learned to do—type, drive, speak German, retrieve a lost object, fold an umbrella, answer the phone, cut a book’s pages, give the time of day to a philistine—it is easy to deduce what Véra was to spend her life doing.” The inseparability of Mr. and Mrs. Nabokov is part of their legend, but they were inseparable only up to a point. Schiff documents what earlier hagiography has omitted. The handsome, patrician Nabokov was a serial adulterer, susceptible to the charms of European émigrées and American co-eds alike. ‘He liked girls.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff gives a Reunion Weekend talk to alumni in Goldwin Smith Hall. A Cornell student, arriving at Vladimir Nabokov's house in the 1950s, saw a fire blazing in the backyard. Suddenly the professor's wife ran out of the house and extracted pages of a manuscript from the flames.

But Stacy Schiff does an amazing job, piecing together Vera's life from stories about her family and her husband Vladimir Nabokov. In particular, I appreciated two aspects of the book. Schiff follows Vera Nabokov from her affluent St. Petersburg childhood, through the dramatic escape from Bolshevik Russia, to the streets of Weimar Berlin, where Vera makes a spectacular entrance into the life of her future husband, then a gifted but struggling writer of Russian verse.

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But Stacy Schiff does an amazing job, piecing together Vera's life from stories about her family and her husband Vladimir Nabokov. In particular, I appreciated two aspects of the book. Although Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) is almost unavoidably indebted to Brian Boyd's masterful two-volume biography of NabokovMs. Schiff has succeeded in creating an elegantly nuanced portrait of the artist's wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov's marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work.

Suddenly the professor's wife ran out of the house and extracted pages of a manuscript from the flames. Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff follows Véra Nabokov from her affluent St. Petersburg childhood, through the dramatic escape from Bolshevik Russia, to the streets of Weimar Berlin, where Véra makes a spectacular entrance into the life of her future husband, then a gifted but struggling writer of Russian verse. A later disguise was as a silent Polish princess acting as ''assistant'' to Nabokov when he lectured at Cornell in the late 1940's and early 50's, switching on lights and ready with quotations, but Vera (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov) Stacy Schiff Picador £25, pp456.
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Stacy Schiff. Share. Writers similar to or like Stacy Schiff. American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, Vera : (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Paperback by Schiff, Stacy, ISBN 0375755349, ISBN-13 9780375755347, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Explores the remarkable literary partnership of the Russian author and his wife of fifty-two years Vera (Mrs.

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.