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The 10 Best Vladimir Nabokov Books
By Brian Boyd | Nov 06, 2015
Award-winning Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd wrote an MA thesis that Vladimir
Nabokov called brilliant and a PhD thesis that Véra Nabokov thought the
best thing written about her husband to date. Boyd, editor of
<http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0307593368> Letters to Véra,
chronicling the decades-long love story between Vladimir and Véra, picks the
10 best Nabokov books.
Vladimir Nabokovs Letters to Véra, edited and translated by Olga Voronina
and myself, publishes on November 4 (Knopf). The letters cover a span from
1923, the year the couple met, to 1976, the year before Nabokov died. Véra
famously helped Vladimir as first reader, editor, typist, secretary and
agent, although not, despite the rumors, as co-author. But Nabokov did once
write to her: I read parts of your little card (about the moveterrible! I
can imagine . . . ) out loud to Ilyusha and Zinzin and they said they
understood now who writes my books for me. We can see glints and shadows or
more of Véra in four of the books on this top ten list, in Pale Fires Sybil
Shade, The Gifts Zina Mertz, The Real Life of Sebastian Knights Claire
Bishop, and Speak, Memorys you.
Martin Amis is not alone in rating Nabokov the greatest writer of the
twentieth century while ranking Ulysses as the centurys greatest single
novel. The top two novels below, though, have both rated higher than even
Ulysses in some published lists. Dont take such orderings too seriously,
but do take the books into your life.
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By Brian Boyd | Nov 06, 2015
Award-winning Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd wrote an MA thesis that Vladimir
Nabokov called brilliant and a PhD thesis that Véra Nabokov thought the
best thing written about her husband to date. Boyd, editor of
<http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0307593368> Letters to Véra,
chronicling the decades-long love story between Vladimir and Véra, picks the
10 best Nabokov books.
Vladimir Nabokovs Letters to Véra, edited and translated by Olga Voronina
and myself, publishes on November 4 (Knopf). The letters cover a span from
1923, the year the couple met, to 1976, the year before Nabokov died. Véra
famously helped Vladimir as first reader, editor, typist, secretary and
agent, although not, despite the rumors, as co-author. But Nabokov did once
write to her: I read parts of your little card (about the moveterrible! I
can imagine . . . ) out loud to Ilyusha and Zinzin and they said they
understood now who writes my books for me. We can see glints and shadows or
more of Véra in four of the books on this top ten list, in Pale Fires Sybil
Shade, The Gifts Zina Mertz, The Real Life of Sebastian Knights Claire
Bishop, and Speak, Memorys you.
Martin Amis is not alone in rating Nabokov the greatest writer of the
twentieth century while ranking Ulysses as the centurys greatest single
novel. The top two novels below, though, have both rated higher than even
Ulysses in some published lists. Dont take such orderings too seriously,
but do take the books into your life.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/
68589-the-10-best-vladimir-nabokov-books.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
Search the archive with L-Soft: https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L
Manage subscription options :http://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NABOKV-L