Speak, Memory

Speak, Memory, autobiographical memoir of his early life and European years by Vladimir Nabokov. Fifteen chapters were published individually (1948–50), mainly in The New Yorker. The book was originally published as Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir (1951); it was also published the same year as Speak, Memory: A Memoir. Nabokov translated into Russian and revised the original work as Drugiye berega (“Other Shores”) in 1954; in 1966 he published a further revised and expanded English-language edition...