« Mon amour pourrait emplir dix siècles de feu, de chants et d’exploits – dix siècles entiers, immenses et aériens, pleins de chevaliers gravissant des montagnes ardentes, de géants légendaires, de Troie en fureur, de voiles orange, de pirates et de poètes. » Dans les plus belles lettres à sa femme Véra, Vladimir Nabokov se révèle en amoureux adorateur et indéfectible, inventeur de génie des mots doux les plus fous, en filigrane de sa trajectoire d’écrivain. Traduit du russe et de l’anglais par Laure Troubetzkoy
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Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков . Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery, and had a big interest in chess problems. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, and is at any rate his most widely known one, exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works. Lolita was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times.
