Vladimir Nabokov | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 03 Jul 2014 06:43:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Vladimir Nabokov | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 “Speak Memory” by Vladimir Nabokov https://anitamathias.com/2010/08/05/speak-memory-by-vladimir-nabokov-2/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:03:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/08/05/speak-memory-by-vladimir-nabokov-2/ “Speak Memory” by Vladimir Nabokov is perhaps the most elegant memoir ever written. It is my favourite memoir, and one of my favourite books.Nabokov’s prose is so beautiful that all one can do is sigh. Nabokov wrote his book in English, of course, but he was trilingual (Russian, French and English) from an early age, […]

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