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ed and Annotated and with an Introductory Essay by Simon Karlinsky Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition
"[The letters] have been edited by Simon Karlinsky with useful annotation throughout and a superb introductory essay in which Karlinsky reviews disagreements that flicker and blaze through the letters, anticipating the famous public battle upon the occasion of Vladimir Nabokov's edition of Eugene Onegin. . . . There is a lot of interesting talk about money, illness, jobs, writing projects, editorial policy at The New Yorker, books, persons and butterflies. But the disagreements will attract the most attention not only because they make the! best literary gossip but also because they give fascinating complexity to the drama of the Nabokov-Wilson letters and the disastrous friendship."--Leonard Michaels, The Nation praise for the first edition: 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 Boyd's definitive two-volume biography of Nabokov. The additional letters and a considerable body of new annotations clarify the correspondence, tracing in greater detail the two decades of close friendship between the writers. Simon Karlinsky is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of The Sexual Labyrinth of Nicolai Gogol (1992) and Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought (1997). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
