The Memoirist against History: Nabokov’s Speak, Memory as the (re)negotiation of a literary form at the intersection of personal experience and historical narrative

Nabokov’s Speak, Memory is a literary memoir that negotiates the relationship between history and personal experience by illuminating one end of a spectrum of authoritative effects that range from artifice to spontaneity. In using play to leverage and highlight the tension between the artifice of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Sala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Groningen Press 2019-04-01
Series:European Journal of Life Writing
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Online Access:https://ejlw.eu/article/view/35515