Can anyone confirm the reports that VN's letters to Vera will be
published
in English translation in 2011? Various sources (RIA
Novosti, Snob.ru) are
saying Knopf will publish them, yet there is no
mention of this on Knopf's
website. Nor can any such book--sources are
calling it "Letters to Vera" or
"Love Letters to Vera"--be preordered on
Amazon.
I haven't seen the full text of the letters published by
Snob (it is
available to subscribers only), but the Russian tabloid
Komsomol'skaia
Pravda also claims to have the letters and has published
several on their
website. They look real, for better or for worse. Can
anyone in the know
comment on this, and in particular on the question of
English publication?
Presumably the letters published would be different
from those in "Selected
Letters" (1989)?
--SAH
On Thu, 4
Nov 2010 22:18:27 -0400, NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
wrote:
>Rqueneau writes:
>
>The Russia magazine Snob has
just made available online, with the generous
>permission of Dmitri
Nabokov, some of the three hundred Nabokov letters
>that will be
published by Knopf next year in Letters to Vera:
>
http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/26543?rp=lj. The
letters, of course, are
>full of fascinating content and exquisite
writing. Enjoy. There is also a
>short interview with Dmitri in which
he mentions that he is continuing to
>work on drafts of his
autobiography. We should all encourage him to finish
>this project.
>