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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International) (Paperback)

by Vladimir Nabokov (Author) "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of..." (more)

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reissue edition (Aug 1989)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0679723390
ISBN-13: 978-0679723394
Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 2 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars A sight into the life Nabokov put on his fictions, 11 Jul 2001

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In this book Navokov let us see how his works were pregnant of his past. It's a collection of several articles, a kind of puzzle, in wich we see through the coloured glass of his fine prose some scenes of his life recreated in his main caracters (Sebastian Knight, for example). He take us from Chapter one (wich begins with the words "The craddle..." and ends with "...the coffin") through his enchanted russian childhood and his first love affair with Tamara to the day he leaves France with his wife and child to begin his american years.More than a common biography you will find a novel that he doubles in 1974's "Look at the harlequins!" in a fine exercise of counterpoint.

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