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Speak, Memory

Jan 13, 2026 9:47 PM

Author:Vladimir Nabokov,Brian Boyd

Speak, Memory

An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passions for butterflies and his lost homeland. Written in this writer's characteristically brilliant, mordant style, this book is also a tender record of lost childhood and youth in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

Reviews

Immensely moving and readable

—— The Times

Moving and funny...A brave and memorable debut

—— Observer

I could hardly put this book down

—— Cape Times

Tough, smart and vulnerable ... emblematic of an entire people

—— Independent

Highly readable, sensitive and intensely moving ... a fine achievement

—— Mail and Guardian, South Africa

To speak of the novels of José Saramago is to speak of the sheer pleasure of reading

—— O Diario, Lisbon

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