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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child: so Nabokov famously, and infamously, wrote when introducing his 1973 volume of selected prose,Strong Opinions.Think, Write, Speakfollows up whereStrong Opinionsleft off, presenting Nabokovs public writings from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two last interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris migr novelist whose stature would bring him to teach and write in America, where his international success exploded withLolitaand propelled him back to Europe as a recognized literary master. Straddling Russian, French and Anglophone worlds, Nabokov discovers contemporary literature and culture at his own pace and with his own strong dispositions. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokovs supreme individuality and his alertness to the details of life past and present illuminate the page and remind us why he has been called the greatest of prose stylists.
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Mary
King, Queen, Knave
The Defense
The Eye
Glory
Laughter in the Dark
Despair
Invitation to a Beheading
The Gift
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Bend Sinister
Lolita
Pnin
Pale Fire
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Transparent Things
Look at the Harlequins!
The Original of Laura
Nabokovs Dozen
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
The Enchanter
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Poems and Problems
Stikhi
Selected Poems
The Tragedy of Mister Morn
The Waltz Invention
The Man from the USSR and Other Plays
Lolita: A Screenplay
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Strong Opinions
Nikolai Gogol
Lectures on Literature
Lectures on Russian Literature
Lectures on Don Quixote
Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tyutchev
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
The Song of Igors Campaign (Anon.)
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 19401971
Selected Letters, 19401977
Letters to Vra
Nabokovs Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings
Insomniac Dreams
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Compilation copyright 2019 by The Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation
Introduction copyright 2019 by Brian Boyd
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 18991977, author. | Boyd, Brian, [1952 ] editor. | Tolstoy, Anastasia, editor.
Title: Think, write, speak : uncollected essays, reviews, interviews, and letters to the editor / by Vladimir Nabokov ; edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.
Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. | In English with some text translated from Russian. | Includes almost a hundred selected interviews with the author from 19321977.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057673 (print) | LCCN 2018059234 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101874929 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101874912 (hardcover)
Classification: LCC PS 3527. A 15 (ebook) | LCC PS 3527. A 15 A 6 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.54dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057673
Ebook ISBN9781101874929
Cover art and design by Chip Kidd
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| DN | Dmitri Nabokov |
| EO | Vladimir Nabokov, trans. and commentary, Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (4 vols., 1964; rev. ed., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975) |
| LCNA | Vladimir Nabokov papers, Library of Congress |
| LTV | Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vra, ed. and trans. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (2014; corrected ed., New York: Vintage, 2017) |
| SM | Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1951; rev. ed., 1967; New York: Vintage, 1989) |
| SO | Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973) |
| V&V | Vladimir Nabokov, Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, ed. Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin (New York: Harcourt, 2008) |
| VN | Vladimir Nabokov |
| VNA Berg | Vladimir Nabokov Papers at The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations |
| VNA Montreux | Vra Nabokovs archive of Vladimir Nabokovs papers, Montreux, as catalogued and transcribed or photocopied by Brian Boyd, 19791983 |
I, the man, am a deeply moral, exquisitely kind, old-fashioned and rather stupid person. I, the writer, am different in every respect. It is the writer who answers your last and best question.
(Interview with Helga Chudacoff, 1974)
Nabokov famously, and infamously, began Strong Opinions, his 1973 selection of his public prose: I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. Think, Write, Speak echoes that pronouncement and that volume, offering a comprehensive selection from his remaining interviews, essays, letters to the editor, and reviews.
Soon after preparing Strong Opinions, Nabokov selected the tales that would go into his fourth English-language volume of stories, by then all being translated from his early Russian fiction, and joked: There remain two or three broken crackers and some mouseturdies at the bottom of the barrel; otherwise, cest tout. But what remained of his public prose after his selection for Strong Opinions, on the other hand, is not the bottom but the bulk of the barrel.
Much loved by Nabokovs readers though it is, Strong Opinions was a rushed compromise. Nabokov had recently signed an initially generous-seeming but soon rather onerous eleven-book deal with his new publisher, McGraw-Hill. When the time quickly came to supply yet another volume, he scurried to assemble Strong Opinions from material that was in most cases recent, topical, and ready to hand. The interviews run from 1962 to 1972, the essays and reviews almost all from 1963 to 1972.
Think, Write, Speak selects from all the remainder of Nabokovs public prose, essays from 1921, letters to the editor from 1926, reviews from 1927, and interviews from 1932. The more than 150 items here do not cover all Nabokovs uncollected output in these modes. Because his critiques of young and mostly forgotten Russian poets for faults in their versification and imagery mean little to readers without Russian, only one such example has been included, the review of the first volume of poems by Boris Poplavskya far violin among near balalaikas, as Nabokov would describe him two decades later in Speak, Memory, before admitting that he would never forgive himself for the ill-tempered review in which I attacked him for trivial faults in his unfledged verse.
But almost everything else is here, except for reporters scene-setting, which Nabokov excluded from Strong Opinions, for long-winded interview questions, which Nabokov retained there, and for repeated answers to repeated questions, which Nabokov also retained. Not that the same questions do not recur here, too (why
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