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Speak Memory

Vladimir Nabokov

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1951
Pages
Pages 280

A writer recovers his vanished childhood, a Russian estate of butterflies, tutors and first loves, in prose that rebuilds what revolution erased, memory by deliberate memory.

Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov

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