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Speak, Memory
Book by Vladimir Nabokov
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First UK edition | |
Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Victor Gollancz ( UK) |
Speak, Memory is a memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov.
Speak memory an autobiography revisited meaning
The book includes individual essays published between and to create the first edition in Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in
Scope
The book is dedicated to his wife, Véra, and covers his life from until his emigration to America in The first twelve chapters describe Nabokov's remembrance of his youth in an aristocratic family living in pre-revolutionarySaint Petersburg and at their country estate Vyra, near Siverskaya.
The three remaining chapters recall his years at Cambridge and as part of the Russian émigré community in Berlin and Paris. Through memory Nabokov is able to possess the past.[1]
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