Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya - by Simon Karlinsky (Paperback)

About the Book

Tracing in detail two decades of close friendship between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, this collection has been expanded to include 59 letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. 24 line illustrations.

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

praise for the first edition:

"When two such brilliantly ebullient intellectuals get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics."--Carlos Baker, author of Hemingway

Review Quotes

"The correspondence ends abruptly in 1965, when Wilson's harsh review of Nabokov's translations of Pushkin led to a prolonged public feud. But in 1971, Nabokov has been rereading the correspondence and sends a melancholy note-'It was such a pleasure to feel again; that constant excitement of art and intellectual discovery.' In this new, expanded paperback edition of the letters, it is an excitement every reader can share."--"Newsday

About the Author

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).