Dec 30, 2009

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited | Themes

Memory and Reminiscence
Speak, Memory explores the way memory and reminiscence provide the author with the artistic power to defy time through his writing. He reconsiders and re-imagines episodes and sequences in his life, reflecting upon certain points in time from different points of time later in his life in a way that challenges the notion of linear chronological passages.

Family and Family Life
Nabokov celebrates family life, particularly in the years when he lived with his parents in St. Petersburg province before World War I. Speak,...