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Author_Vladimir Nabokov
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family dynamics
family history
letters
literary
literary criticism
lolita
memories
mid century
modernism
nikolai gogol
pale fire
personal history
pnin
pushkin
remembrance of things past
revolutionary russia
russia history
russian history
russian literature
speak memory
spring in fialta
st petersburg
story of russia
terrific mother
the novel a biography
the recollection
the tutor
tolstoy short stories
translation
transparent things
Product details
- ISBN 9780141183220
- Weight: 210g
- Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
