A selection of previously unpublished letters by Russian-U.S. novelist Vladimir Nabokov to his beloved wife, Vera Slonim, will be printed in Russia's elite Snob magazine on November 20.
The full collection of some 300 love letters, written from 1923-1975 will be published next year in the United States by Knopf publishers under the title "Letters to Vera".
"I've been planning to release these notes for a long time, not only because they are written beautifully and are a preeminent epitome of Nabokov's prose, but also because they allow us to take a closer look at the relationship between two remarkably fine and talented people," Dmitry Nabokov, the son of the novelist said.
Vera Slonim's part of the exchange will not be published.
"My mother, Vera Nabokov, was a very reserved person who aimed to keep her private life private and preferred not to let her letters be published," Dmitry Nabokov said.
The famous novelist dedicated almost all of his books to Vera. Although the two were rarely apart, Nabokov's personal archive comprises some 300 notes of correspondence between them.
Vladimir Nabokov was born to an aristocratic Russian family in St. Petersburg, where he lived until his family fled the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. After studying at Cambridge University and living in Berlin, he emigrated to the United States in 1940.
He is also well known in the West as the author of Lolita, Pale Fire and Bend Sinister.
MOSCOW, November 19 (RIA Novosti)
