The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov

This audiobook offers a revealing look into Vladimir Nabokov’s life and works, exploring how his personal history and the turbulent events of the twentieth century influenced his writing. Drawing on declassified intelligence files and recovered military history, author Andrea Pitzer uncovers how Nabokov subtly embedded stories of concentration camps, anti-Semitism, and wartime atrocities within his fiction. It presents Nabokov not merely as an aesthetic artist, but as a keen documentarian of his tumultuous era, weaving together his family’s story with the broader history of the century.