Speak, Memory (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Memory, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Lifestyles, Russia or Russian people
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited covers thirty-seven of Nabokov's first forty-one years, from August, 1903, to May, 1940. It is a considerable revision of his first partial autobiography, Conclusive Evidence. Most of the chapters of Conclusive Evidence first appeared in The New Yorker between 1948 and 1950 and were published as a book in 1951. In the foreword, Nabokov states that the book provides conclusive evidence of his existence. He had planned to title its British edition Speak, Mnemosyne, invoking the Greeks’ goddess of memory and...
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