false 30594 23 The late Vladimir Nabokov always did things <i>his</i> way, and his classic autobiography is no exception. No dry recital of dates, names, and addresses for this linguistic magician--instead, <i>Speak, Memory</i> is a succession of lapidary episodes, in which the factoids play second fiddle to the development of Nabokov's sensibility. There is, to be sure, an impressionistic whirl through the author's family history (including a gallery of Tartar princes and fin-de-siècle oddities). And Nabokov's account of his tenure at St. Petersburg's famous Tenishev School--where he counted Osip Mandelstam among his schoolmates--offers a lovely glimpse into the heart of Russia's silver age. Still, Nabokov is much too artful an autobiographer to present <i>Speak, Memory</i> as a slice of reality--a word, by the way, that he insisted must always be surrounded by quotation marks. 2540547 book 1967 Speak, Memory total:1727|5:795|4:592|3:271|2:53|1:16| 1727 7278 2817 143 394725 0679723390 9780679723394 280 27 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174414238m/394725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394725.Speak_Memory_An_Autobiography_Revisited 5 4 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 03:30:49 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 17 08:56:33 -0700 2008
It took me some time to become used to the way he ...more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 5 4 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 19 09:39:07 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 10:12:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 3 3 false Tue Jan 22 22:09:58 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 12:24:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 592192 0375405534 9780375405532 40 11 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176089007m/592192.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/592192.Speak_Memory 5 2 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Jun 16 16:53:07 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 16:55:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 3 2 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 11:58:45 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 13:17:04 -0700 2008 Mnemo...more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 5 0 false Thu Dec 04 12:10:51 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 16:03:09 -0800 2008
""The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us t...more...]]> 394725 0679723390 9780679723394 280 27 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174414238m/394725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394725.Speak_Memory_An_Autobiography_Revisited 4 1 false Wed Aug 08 20:16:17 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 21:33:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed May 23 20:39:25 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 20:42:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 4 0 false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 02:42:02 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 13:40:42 -0700 2009 Lolita years and years ago, as a teenager, for the shock value. The one thing that stuck with me was what an amazing skill Nabokov has with words, reminiscent of William Golding. It seemed particularly unfair that a Russian knew English words that had me reaching for the dictionary. I hadn't ...more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 4 4 false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 05:13:30 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 04:37:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 4 0 false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 12:00:06 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 31 17:56:45 -0700 2009
Nabokov's autobiography Speak, Memory offers the reader an interesting combination of open and welcoming tone with isolating and exclusive subject matter and diction. Throughout his book, Nabokov both awes and belittles his reader with his own genius. By addressing...more...]]> 592192 0375405534 9780375405532 40 11 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176089007m/592192.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/592192.Speak_Memory 5 0 false Thu Jul 17 09:19:07 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 11:23:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 394725 0679723390 9780679723394 280 27 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174414238m/394725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394725.Speak_Memory_An_Autobiography_Revisited 5 0 false Thu Jul 17 09:19:04 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 20:55:55 -0700 2008
From the text:

"I would moreover submit that, in regard to the power of hoarding up impressions, Russian children of my generation passed throug...more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 3 0 false Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri May 09 12:28:53 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 04 07:25:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 5 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 11:09:45 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 07:35:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 394725 0679723390 9780679723394 280 27 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174414238m/394725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394725.Speak_Memory_An_Autobiography_Revisited 3 0 false Wed Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 20:10:13 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 21:09:02 -0700 2008
Thought not the best of the stories I've read (literary-autobiography-wise, nothing I've read surpasses Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles), this charming, rather haphazardly collated collection of Nabokov's autobiographical episodes is certainly worth read...more...]]> 394725 0679723390 9780679723394 280 27 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174414238m/394725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394725.Speak_Memory_An_Autobiography_Revisited 5 0 false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Oct 07 11:29:14 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 11:29:14 -0700 2007
Here is a summing up quote from my posts in the...more...]]> 592192 0375405534 9780375405532 40 11 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176089007m/592192.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/592192.Speak_Memory 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Jun 25 13:22:10 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 11 11:41:47 -0700 2008
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter - to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure...more...]]> 394725 0679723390 9780679723394 280 27 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174414238m/394725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394725.Speak_Memory_An_Autobiography_Revisited 5 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 19:01:31 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 19:13:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 30594 0141183225 9780141183220 1365 101 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259971331m/30594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory 4 0 false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Apr 14 11:17:23 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 11:20:07 -0700 2009 Pnin, terrific, Lolita, not my favorite, and this one, Speak Memory</>. This is a lovely story of his nomadic, but comfortable, childhood. From Russia to Western Europe. more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5071920