An autobiography revisited ebook written by vladimir nabokov. Speak, memory, autobiographical memoir of his early life and european years by vladimir nabokov. Speak, memory offers a gorgeous and beguiling account of a pampered russian childhood broken into fragments of. Nabokov s sentences are absolutely magical in this book. Speak, memory is a loose collection of correlated and somewhat chronological personal short story memoirs by vladimir nabokov. Speak, memory, first published in 1951 as conclusive evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of nabokov s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including lolita, pnin, despair, the gift, the real life of sebastian knight, and the defense. He was a finalist for the national book award for fiction seven times.
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This book is a synthesis and a further exploration into some of the questions that were raised during the speak, memory symposium that took place at the townhouse gallery in cairo on october 2830, 2010. Fifteen chapters were published individually 194850, mainly in the new yorker. The first twelve chapters describe nabokov s remembrance of his youth in a quasiaristocratic family living in prerevolutionary saint petersburg and their country estate vyra near siverskaya. The book includes individual short stories published between 1936 and 1951 to. A very good book with a solid binding and a clean, unmarked text.
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