Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited | Essays and Criticism

  • The Use of Memory and Artifice in Nabokov's Book

    France is a librarian who teaches history and interdisciplinary studies at University Liggett School and writing and poetry at Macomb College near Detroit, Michigan. In the following essay, France discusses how the use of memory and artifice in Nabokov’s book gains the illusion of control over linear time.

  • Nabokov and Memory

    In the following essay, Alter explores how Nabokov pursues and manipulates the past through language in Speak, Memory.

  • The Novelist’s Composure: Speak, Memory as Fiction

    In the following essay excerpt, Stuart shows how Speak, Memory is a fiction in how Nabokov chooses to mold facts.