Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory

An Autobiography Revisited
Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2000
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-118322-0 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents 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.
'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.

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.10.2000
Reihe/Serie Penguin Classics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 197 mm
Gewicht 211 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Slavistik
ISBN-10 0-14-118322-5 / 0141183225
ISBN-13 978-0-14-118322-0 / 9780141183220
Zustand Neuware
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