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Nabokov s speak, memory is a beautiful memoir, filled with little details and stories that are wonderfully told. People in trains, who lay their newspaper aside, fold their silly arms, and immediately, with an offensive familiarity of demeanour, start snoring, amaze me as much as the uninhibited chap who cozily defecates in the presence of a chatty tubber, or participates in huge demonstrations, or joins some union in order to dissolve in it. His memoir, speak, memory, tells of his early life in russia. Nabokovs speak, memory as the european journal of life writing. Fifteen chapters were published individually 194850, mainly in the new yorker. An autobiography revisited ebook written by vladimir nabokov. Ada or ardor a family chronicle by nabokov, vladimir. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are timofey pnin.
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