6/12/2023 0 Comments Speak memory by vladimir nabokov![]() ![]() But even imagination cannot penetrate the eternity of darkness. Some things are close, like truth, reality, experience and others remain far memory and oblivion. Throughout his autobiography, Nabokov assigns spatial properties to the abstract. The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait. This autobiography, especially his scepticism of memory, differs from those like Graham Green who accept childhood, though only memory, as real. He wonders if that which he immortalized in fiction is truer than life. ' Vot zapomni ,' she would say in conspiratorial tones as she drew my attention to this or that loved thing.īut Nabokov is also intensely philosophical. ![]() To love with all one's soul and leave the rest to fate was the simple rule she heeded. Petersburg, and his beautiful but distant mother. His tone in Speak, Memory is playful as he reflects on his intellectual father, his beloved pre-War St. It pulls him back and thrusts him forward to visions and narratives. ![]() Memory, for Russian-born novelist Vladimir Nabokov (ApJ), is an active thing that holds truth and space. ![]()
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