![]() ![]() He and his mother bonded over their shared synesthesia and many other things. He was obviously quite close to his mother, with whom he shared a genetic neuropsychological diagnosis of synesthesia – letters had colors in his brain, and he could not equate one without the other. Though the memoir has this dark undertone, Nabokov had quite a happy childhood. ![]() He reflects, quite darkly, that the crib his parents filmed looks like a coffin as if they, too, recognize the flash of life that each person gets and the deeply impermanent nature of human existence. He is disturbed at first by how they had lived just fine without him – it made him feel meager, unimportant, and temporary. Nabokov begins his memoir writing about his experiences watching home movies of his parents before he was born. ![]() In it, Nabokov writes about his recognition of his own meager existence on this vast and complicated planet, also reflecting on his unique experiences as a child with synesthesia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Speak, Memory radically revises this first autobiography, covering the first forty years of Nabokov's life, moving from Russia to the south of France to Yalta to England, and finally to America. Acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited is an adaptation of his first, partial autobiography Conclusive Evidence, which was published as a column in The New Yorker. ![]()
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