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From: The Antioch Review
Date: 20030322
Author:Fogarty, Robert S.
Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory is arguably the finest autobiography of the twentieth century, even taking Henry Adams's Education into consideration. Speak, Memory is a highly nuanced evocation of a life lived in Russia, France, Germany, England, and America. He was perpetually in exile, a follower of Proust and Gogol, an accomplished lepidopterist, a challenging teacher, and a brilliant stylist who loved words, contradictions, and the shape of stories told and then retold.
The opening lines of his autobiography are redolent of Venerable Bede and Henry Adams (historians ...
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