NP "Speak, Memory"

[David Morris]

>From a review of R.Reagan's "biography" _Dutch_:

http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,65581-412,00.shtml

Postmodernism specializes in deceit 

Words like deception, madness, inane, dishonest, narcissistic, parasitic,
irresponsible, travesty, bizarre and monstrous floated overhead like blimps.
The best of these reviews, in The New Yorker, mentioned Nabokov’s novel Pale
Fire, in which a lunatic imagines that a long poem by somebody else is actually
all about him. 

More to the point, perhaps, is Nabakov’s own memoir, Speak Memory, in which he
lied about himself. As did Andre Malraux, in four volumes of his anti-memoirs.
As did Henry Adams in his third-person autobiography, where he failed to
mention his wife’s suicide, or even that he had a wife. 


--- s~Z <keith at pfmentum.com> wrote:
> From whence comes the title, _Speak, Memory_?


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