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Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
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It not only offers profound insights into the childhood of one of the century's greatest writers but enlarges our understanding of his works.
It not only offers profound insights into the childhood of one of the century's greatest writers but enlarges our understanding of his works.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780679723394 (0679723390)
ASIN: 679723390
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 316
Edition language: English
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Flicker Reads
Flicker Reads rated it
4.0 Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
The thing that makes a good story are characters we care about placed in incredible moments. The problem with so many biographies and autobiographies is that, in order to dutifully encompass a lifetime of experiences, the writer takes a wide-angle lens of events without ever allowing the reader an o...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it
5.0 Speak Memory
This book is amazing, not for the story it tells but for how that story is written. It consists of essays written and published at different times and places, but it all holds together. Each chapter follows the other in basically chronological order. Let the author speak for himself:For the present ...
Bloody Shambles
Bloody Shambles rated it
Listened to "My Russian Education" on The New Yorker podcast, read by Orhan Pamuk. I'm not sure Pamuk was the ideal choice of reader, given his tendency to place emphasis on the wrong syllable in almost every single word - but it was entertaining! I have very little idea what the story was about tho...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it
I did not like the autobiography so it gets one star, but because it was exquisitely written it gets another star to boot. But that doesn't make the book good or very much fun to read. It was similar to orally having to swallow some very disgusting-tasting medicine. And I am really not sure why I ha...
jennifer mills
jennifer mills rated it
4.0 Speak Memory An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics)
Irresistable.
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