Letters to Véra (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov

Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141939636
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2016-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

(No, here’s how it’s arranged: we hire a stove and a tank of gas (‘Buta-Gaz’ –absolutely harmless, by the way, since even if it leaks, it spreads over the ground in a thin layer). This costs 25 fr. a month; they bring it up from the city and set it up – so there’ll be neither wood nor fuss.) My love, my dear – and already almost flesh-and-blood – love! Yes, on the 6th or the 7th I’ll be here already – and if you think that it’s less tiring for you to go through Paris, then let’s meet here – but I still think it would be better for you to go straight to Toulon. By the way, I’ll find out and write to you about the departure times of trains from Berlin, and the prices. Today’s letter is strictly business, and I’m in a rush to send it. Remember that I won’t tolerate any more changes, that the little house is rented, and that it’s nice and cheap. You can’t get cheaper anywhere, while the climate there is wonderful and the little one will paddle to his heart’s content. I will write to Anyuta tomorrow. Won’t she come with us? I kiss you without end, my happiness. I’ve bought you a wonderful lipstick.

V.

[APCS]

[postmarked 26 April 1937]

TO: 21, Osnabrücker Str., b/ Prof Geballe,

Berlin – Wilmersdorf, Allemagne

c/o Fondaminsky, 130, av. de Versailles

[Paris]

My dear love, the pictures are wonderful! Thanks, my dear love. I am sitting in our corner café, in the sun, and it drives me crazy and tortures me that you’re not seeing with me that smiling linden tree, the shining of hobnails on passers-by, the ruby of my Dubonnet. Instead of a final decision, I received from Gleb today a foolish limp postcard informing me that he does not have two spare pounds to rent a hall; and Victor is simply afraid to send them to him, since he’ll squander them. Alluding to the fact that not a single review of Despair has appeared yet, Struve hedges, ponders and proposes that I concentrate on Sablin, as a consequence of which I flew into such a rage that I almost sent him a letter to match. On the other hand, I have still not received an answer from Sablin – he must be fasting. My project of going there earlier, on the 28th, to reach a deal with the Liberal Club, has apparently fallen through utterly. I’ll wait three more days and if there’s nothing new, I will ask you to leave immediately, my happiness, so that by the first we could be in Favière. I’ll write you about the trains. I am writing to Gleb today, to try seriously to organize at least the Russian evening, after getting in touch with Sabl., and on top of that an English evening in a private house, without renting any halls. I feel quite miserable. Most importantly, if England doesn’t work out now, there’d be no need to postpone your visit so.

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