Nabokov Vladimir
Nabokov's Speak, Memory is widely considered the most beautifully written autobiography in English, recreating a lost Russian aristocratic world with the precision of a lepidopterist and the imagery of a poet. He is also the supreme 20th-century master of the novel.
Works
- Speak, MemoryAutobiographical meditation on memory and artistic development
- LolitaNovel of obsession following a man's pursuit of a young girl
- Pale FireExperimental novel combining poem and critical commentary in frame narrative
- Ada, or ArdorMultigenerational family saga exploring themes of desire and memory
- The GiftNovel about a Russian exile writer and his artistic aspirations