In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov reflects on his past with such vivid clarity that people and places seem suspended in time, untethered from specific moments. His recollections evoke the feeling ...
SPEAK, MEMORY by Vladimir Nabokov. 316 pages. Putnam. $6.75. Ego dictates all autobiographies, the good and the bad; the truly modest man keeps silent, letting his life speak for itself. The literary ...
I recently found myself in a conversation with a friend, who upon reading the online summaries of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Speak, Memory,” deemed them insufficient to match her experience with the text. As ...
The Daily Star: Between memory and mirage: The many lives of Vladimir Nabokov
Although Speak, Memory clearly illuminates the self-parodic content of Nabokov's fiction, no one has fully recognized the aesthetic implications of these transmutations, or the extent to which Nabokov ...
Vladimir Nabokov began collecting lepidoptera at the age of seven. Throughout a long and protean literary career, his passion for insects remained unwavering. He published his first verses as a ...
The Stranger: Speak Memory and "Visualizing U.S. Births and Deaths in Real-Time"
The complex themes and rich language in the works of Vladimir Nabokov—a Russian émigré considered one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century—will be the focus of a campus event featuring a ...
VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH NABOKOV, aged sixtyeight, best known as the author of Lolita, has this year become the object of scholarly study. Two book-length evaluations have appeared, Escape Into ...
Since the success of Lolita in the mid-1950s, Nabokovites—both lepidopterists and literary critics—have tried to re-create his exhilarating field trips, as though the way he captured butterflies might ...