Speak, Memory (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: August, 1903, to May, 1940
- Setting: Russia and Europe
- Principal Characters: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Memory, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Lifestyles, Russia or Russian people
Form and Content
Vladimir Nabokov was one of the many aristocrats and intellectuals who emigrated from Russia as the Bolsheviks rose to power during the revolution of 1917. Nabokov’s family moved, first, some fifty miles north from their estate to St. Petersburg, then to the vicinity of Yalta in the southern Crimea, and finally in 1919, by way of Greece, to London. Nabokov’s parents, along with his two sisters (Olga and Elena) and youngest brother (Kirill), left London to take up residence in Berlin, where on March 28, 1922, his father was shot to death by...
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