In this classic account of his life, Nabokov writes about his idyllic Russian childhood in an aristocratic family, the Bolshevik revolution that led to his exile from Russia, and the path that would eventually lead him to live in America. Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory is one of the most critically acclaimed memoirs of the twentieth century.

JOAN WICKERSHAM, author, The Suicide Index This is a supremely alert book about a supremely alert book.” “Like Nabokov’s, Birkerts’ book is both a nuanced excursion into the nature of memory and a reminder that reading and writing are acts of noticing. “Much more than an exercise in literary criticism, this short book increasingly reads as a profound, sensitive, insightful meditation on family, history, time, language, the nature of artistic inspiration, and, in the end, even the meaning of life.”- OLGA GRUSHIN, author, The

This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise.”- CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,Īuthor, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay

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