SOURCE: “Nabokov Before Proust: The Paradox of Anticipatory Memory,” in Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 78-94.
In the following essay, Foster defines the importance of “anticipatory memory” in Nabokov's early Russian novels, the ones written before he became familiar with the Proustian practice of involuntary memory.
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