The ceaseless return

ABSTRACT. The focus in this paper is on the relationship of the self to autobiographical memory in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory. Despite the writer’s continuous vacillation between an artist’s imaginative freedom and a memorialist’s strict fidelity in recording the past, Speak, Memory provides a sense of personal identity and continuity. We also aim at accounting for the problematic status and distinctiveness of Vladimir Nabokov’s ars memoriae. pp. 103–107

Keywords: self; memory; identity; Vladimir Nabokov