Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)

by VladimirNabokov (Author)

Synopsis

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 26 Oct 2000

ISBN 10: 0141183225
ISBN 13: 9780141183220

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Nabokov has fleshed the bare bones of historical data with hilarious anecdotes and with a felicity of style that makes Speak, Memory a constant pleasure to read. Confirmed Nabokovians will relish the further clues and references to his fictional works that shine like nuggets in the silver stream of his prose. -- Harper's
Scintillating...One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever. -- New York Times
[Nabokov] has fleshed the bare bones of historical data with hilarious anecdotes and with a felicity of style that makes Speak, Memory a constant pleasure to read. Confirmed Nabokovians will relish the further clues and references to his fictional works that shine like nuggets in the silver stream of his prose. -- Harper' s
Scintillating... One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever. -- New York Times
[Nabokov] has fleshed the bare bones of historical data with hilarious anecdotes and with a felicity of style that makes Speak, Memory a constant pleasure to read. Confirmed Nabokovians will relish the further clues and references to his fictional works that shine like nuggets in the silver stream of his prose. -- Harper's

Scintillating...One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever. -- New York Times
Author Bio
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.