Re. Speak, Memory

[jbor]

   The first assemblage of these recollections was published here in 1951 as
   "Conclusive Evidence" ("conclusive evidence of my having existed"). The
   English edition was retitled "Speak, Memory," which sounded less like a
   mystery story and was on acceptable modification of Nabokov's first
   choice of title, "Speak, Mnemosyne," which his publishers persuaded him
   was commercially debilitating.

from:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-speak.html

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>From: David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
>To: Pynchlist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP "Speak, Memory"
>Date: Fri, Dec 29, 2000, 6:36 AM
>

> More to the point, perhaps, is Nabakovís 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 wifeís suicide, or even that he had a wife.