A review by casparb
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov

A sweet piece very much riding with his 4th pick for best-of-20th-century-lit, what he (homophically) names Proust's 'fairytale'. I'm not saying that only for the reasons of it's-an-autobiography-thus-Marcel but also his style, sweet as ever in this period has so many more Proustian overtones than usual though perhaps I'm feeling more sensitive to that lately. There's an acceleration in this such that the 'adult' years are really squished into the last fifth or so & we get reams of childhood which isn't exactly unwelcome but I want more of Véra