In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which "twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series." The first four arcs of the spiral of Nabokov's life--his youth in Russia, voluntary exile in Europe, two decades spent in the United States, and the final years of his life in Switzerland--are now followed by a fifth arc, his continuing life in literary history, which this volume both explores and symbolizes.
This is the first collection of essays to examine all five arcs of Nabokov's creative life...
In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which "twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis...
