Think, Write, Speak Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov is a significant collection published by Penguin Classics in 2020. This 576-page volume presents a diverse array of previously uncollected texts from Nabokov’s extensive career, showcasing his insights and reflections from various stages of his life, including early writings from his time at Cambridge and later interviews conducted before his death in 1977.
Readers will discover a rich tapestry of Nabokov’s thoughts on literature and criticism, as well as his personal experiences and observations. The collection includes essays, letters, and interviews that reveal his complex relationship with fame and his dedication to the craft of writing. Edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this edition offers a unique glimpse into Nabokov’s literary journey, emphasizing themes of literary criticism and the nuances of his Russian and Soviet influences.
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‘Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful’ – Philip Hensher, The Spectator
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019
The last major collection of Nabokov’s published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author’s extraordinary career.
Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977.
Introduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov’s literary orbit. Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, playful, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated.
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