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# Vladimir Nabokov : Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, Memory (Library of America)

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## Customer Reviews

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    I found Nabokov overrated.
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2020*

The memoir SPEAK, MEMORY was the reason I got this book.  The reputed sumptuousness of the prose was overcome by the boring, elitist perspective that Nabokov brought to his writing.  Raised in a family of Russian landed gentry, his childhood memories of nannies, tutors, and the like was not something that most people could relate to, and his lifetime hobby of catching butterflies certainly didn't come close to what most people look to for sport.  His frequent use of abstruse words doesn't help the flow or the comprehension of his descriptions.

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    A Russian cosmopolitan among American classics
  

*by C***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2011*

One must celebrate those plural minds who decided  that a Russian exile and cosmopolitan writer could have a home among American classics. Navokob's elegant prose and humanistic sensitivity enhances the scope of The Library of America, and more than deserves these beautiful tomes.

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    Incomparable
  

*by T***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2011*

The two novels and autobiography in this volume are quirky, brilliant, and written in incomparable prose. One of the things not often mentioned about Nabokov is how hilarious he can be. Enjoy!--but not if you like meat-and-potatoes realism or mainstream tales of self-pity.

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