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Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971
Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of Edmund Wilson's diaries have been published, as well as a volume of Nabokov's correspondence with other people and Brian Bo...more
Paperback, revised & expanded, 398 pages
Published
April 3rd 2001
by University of California Press
(first published 1979)
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I can barely write a review of this book after having just finished it because I am so dwarfed by Wilson and Nabokov's letters. This is a truly entertaining, not to mention beautifully written and insightful, exchange between the two authors and fans of either man will greatly appreciate it.
I love that one of the first things Wilson writes to Nabokov is this: "do please refrain from puns, to which I see you have a slight propensity. They are pretty much excluded from serious journalism here."
Nabokov is wonderful.
Two brilliant, arrogant pedants exchange potshots and adulation over three decades. What's interesting here, at least to me, is how much nicer and more supportive Nabokov is than Wilson.
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I'm still reading this one - it was a present from Jeremy. I brought it to work and keep it on my desk, that way I look pretentious and I have something to read for when it's slow.
Two glittering literati discuss editors, translation, pornography, their families and more.
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