Psychological impact of psoriasis on Vlamidir Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is best known for having published in 1954 in France his novel Lolita. Many publications report his psoriasis, but none was interested in its psychological repercussions. He and his wife Vera Slonim remained inseparable from 1923 to 1977, when the writer died. In 2017, the Russian letters to Vera from 1923 to 19771 were translated into English by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (figure 1). We searched for all the passages in which Vladimir Nabokov refers to his psoriasis. Vladimir Nabokov reported his psoriasis for the first time on 7 July 1936, which heals after a solar exposure (p.127). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.