Speak, Memory

10 hrs. 8 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Nabokov

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

"Other Shores" is the brightest novel of that Nabokov series which critics called the Russian-language "chronicle of lost time" and "The Step, Fulfilled in the Word".
"Other Shores." Shores of memory, shores of childhood. For from them — and only from them — lies the path of the great writer. A cross-shaped path, a sorrowful path, via dolorosa — it joins Nabokov with all of Russian emigration. A road to eternity paved with brilliant verbal revelations, setting Nabokov apart even among the ranks of "Russian Abroad." Everything begins with childhood. With the first words. Because — "In the beginning was the Word…"