SOURCE: “Nabokov and Memory,” in Partisan Review, Vol. LVIII, No. 4, Fall, 1991, pp. 620-29.
In the following essay, Alter examines the intersection of past and present, of actual memory and reconstructed scenes in Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory.
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