![]() ![]() Sciff tells us some say it was because she did not trust her husband around coeds and she had good reasons for this. ![]() Nabokov, a very deeply read person, attended every class and set in the first row. The accounts of the lectures and classroom atmosphere are just wonderful. Nabokov taught literature at several American universities, Wesleyan, Cornell and Harvard. They got out of Europe just in time, 1938. I was ashamed of Nabokov when I learned he had numerous affairs with other women. Mrs Nabokov ran all the practical details of their life. Nabokov was often thought to be a White Russian countess or a German princess but she always quickly asserted she was a Russian Jew. ![]() It was fascinating to learn more about the Russian Emigre community in Paris and very sad to see many supported Hitler's anti-Semitic policies, seeing the Jews as responsible for the fall of the Tsar and the destruction of their privileged world. Nabokov gave English and tennis lessons and his wife translated and did secretarial work while typing all her husband's manuscripts. I learned of their very real struggles just to get by in Europe. I will just talk about some of the many things I liked about and learned from this profound deeply emphatic biography. I do not desire to give a synopsis of their lives together. ![]()
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