Letters to Véra

Never published in German before: The letters of the great Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov to his wife - testimonies to a lifelong love and intellectual passion. Vladimir Nabokov's passion for his wife lasted for fifty-four years, from the first poem he wrote for her in 1923, when he knew her for barely a few hours, to the late moments of their marriage, when he signed the last books of his life, like the twenty before, with "For Véra". And although they were rarely separated, Nabokov wrote countless letters to his wife, which are published here in German for the first time. Barely a year after they had met in exile in Berlin, he wrote: "We are both something very special; no one knows such wonders as we know them, and no one loves as we do. When he told the educated daughter of a wealthy Jewish hän