Book description
'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came
flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his
comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded
father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family
hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the
surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love,
butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to
weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.
Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author
of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
The Russian-American novelist, poet, and critic Vladimir Nabokov,
(1899-1977) is best known for his novel LOLITA. Nabokov was born in
Saint Petersburg, Russia. He began writing for the Russian migr press
in Berlin, under the pseudonym of VladimirSirin. In 1940 Nabokov moved
to the United States and five years later became an American citizen.
The publication of LOLITA made him a major literary figure. In 1959
Nabokov moved to Switzerland, where he led a reclusive life until his
death.
