This book contains more than three hundred letters and more than thirty years of personal friendship and professional communication of the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (just in these years became an American writer) and the American critic, historian, prose writer, poet and playwright Edmund Wilson .. In the history of friendship Nabokov and Wilson alternated emotional ebbs and ebbs Mutual interest and mutual cooling , joyful discoveries of common literary passions - and much more frequent disagreement in views on literature , Art, History and Politics , It is sometimes hard ,. There has been no dispute over the years[edit] Temperamental polemics about poetry and the principles of artistic translation , The birth and gradual growth of the plans of the famous books in the future , Nabokov's teaching experience , author relations with American magazines and publishers, Colorful Portraits of Russian Immigrants , Entomological Tours , Finally, Daily Life Cares , [CM change of addresses and twisting of routes , - from this long series of events and impressions, a colorful intonation pattern and a whimsical intellectual plot of the book are built.