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A review by nilla_
Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Stacy Schiff
It genuinely took me three months of reading this book nearly every day to finish it. Véra and Vladimir Nabokov are fascinating figures, but I’m not positive it was worth it.
The prose is clear and the trajectory of the Nabokovs’ lives is traced with a lot of care. There’s not too much editorializing - Schiff mostly lets Véra’s own words and attitudes speak for themselves, no easy feat when describing a woman that spent so much time trying to remove herself from the narrative of her husband’s life.
The prose is clear and the trajectory of the Nabokovs’ lives is traced with a lot of care. There’s not too much editorializing - Schiff mostly lets Véra’s own words and attitudes speak for themselves, no easy feat when describing a woman that spent so much time trying to remove herself from the narrative of her husband’s life.