Speak, Memory: Introduction by Brian Boyd (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Hardcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375405534 ISBN 13: 9780375405532

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 1999

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Book by Nabokov Vladimir Boyd Brian

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"[Nabokov] has fleshed the bare bones of historical data with hilarious anecdotes and with a felicity of style that makes Speak, Memory a constant pleasure to read. Confirmed Nabokovians will relish the further clues and references to his fictional works that shine like nuggets in the silver stream of his prose." --Harper's

"Scintillating...One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." --New York Times

Reseña del editor

 

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman's Library edition includes, for the first time, the previously unpublished "Chapter 16"–the most significant unpublished piece of writing by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate–which provided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory.

 

Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375405534
• ISBN 13: 9780375405532
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344