5/10/2023 0 Comments Nabokov autobiography![]() Speak, Memory is a truly distinctive memoir. Though he had not yet reached the meteoric success Lolita (1955) would bring him, the memoir was quickly regarded as an outstanding work of non-fiction. In 1951, the writer published the first edition of his autobiography, Speak, Memory. He was also a keen butterfly collector, composer of chess problems, and polyglot. Petersburg to an aristocratic family, the young Nabokov lived through the Russian Revolution, studied at Cambridge University and later emigrated to the United States. One of the twentieth century’s most eminent writers, Vladimir Nabokov’s life rivals his fiction in its intrigue. ‘This re-Englishing of a Russian re-version of what had been an English re-telling of Russian memories in the first place, proved to be a diabolical task, but some consolation was given me by the thought that such multiple metamorphosis, familiar to butterflies, had not been tried by any human before’ I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. ![]()
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