![]() It consists of essays written and published at different times and places, but it all holds together. This book is amazing, not for the story it tells but for how that story is written. I would have chosen a different narrator for this particular story, but otherwise it was a delight, and has inspired me to pursue this author's works in greater depth. In a sense the writer pays homage to these people, some of whom seem remarkable, but swept away by a tide of historical change. ![]() Because it is told from the point of reference of an emigre, looking back to a world in Russia now almost entirely gone, there is a poignancy in much of what is related, Some of the people who inhabit the story sadly never survive the political turmoil and revolutionary wars. Small details like the muff that his mother raises to her face to keep out the cold as she is drawn along by the sleigh take on an importance equal to many more weighty events drawn by the story. ![]() From this perspective Nabokov's perceptiveness and remarkable memory give the listener a unique prism from which to view the unfolding of his own life and those around him. ![]() This inspired me to read Nabokov's novelsĪ beautifully written biography that captures much of Nabokov's life with particular reference to his childhood. ![]()
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