Silence of love. Nabokov V.

In the book “Silence of Love”, young Vladimir Nabokov appears before us - a subtly worried, in love, doubting, looking for himself. And the new book, addressed to youth, just contains poems and stories that attribute us to his childhood in the St. Petersburg province, his youth, who came to emigration in pre -war Europe... The childhood of the Nobel Nominee Vladimirovich Nabomovich is associated with the environs of St. Petersburg, he held it in The suburban estate expressed (near Gatchina), in the estate “Out of the Cast”, in Batovo and Christmas.

The book includes stories from the collections “Return of Chorba”, “Swing”, “Spring in Fialt”, poems, poems, dedicated to the memories of childhood and youth, the native city, Russian poets and writers.

“For Nabokov, childhood was a lost paradise: at twelve years he leaves with his family from his native country, and is now forced to rebuild his life. In Russia, the Nabokovs were rich, and in exile Vladimir Vladimirovich had to earn a living for himself: the lessons of French and English, and at the same time, both tennis and boxing. Once he had tutors - now he himself was hired for a short while the tutor into rich families.

The book combines texts of very different times, of different genres, and different stylistics. But together they form a peculiar pattern. We go with the writer in his life, from the Lost Paradise - to the Paradise acquired. And we may feel, trace how this paradise gains its outlines. This unity helps us to feel the drawings of remarkable artists Alexander and Valery Tygows. ” Valery Shubinsky