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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. [This book] follows up where Strong Opinions left 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 with Lolita and 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.--Provided by publisher.

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ALSO BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV NOVELS Mary King Queen Knave The Defense The Eye - photo 1
ALSO BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV
NOVELS

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

SHORT FICTION

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

POETRY

Poems and Problems

Stikhi

Selected Poems

DRAMA

The Tragedy of Mister Morn

The Waltz Invention

The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

Lolita: A Screenplay

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND INTERVIEWS

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Strong Opinions

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

Nikolai Gogol

Lectures on Literature

Lectures on Russian Literature

Lectures on Don Quixote

TRANSLATIONS

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

LETTERS

Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 19401971

Selected Letters, 19401977

Letters to Vra

MISCELLANEOUS

Nabokovs Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings

Insomniac Dreams

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF Compilation copyright - photo 2

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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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

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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DNDmitri Nabokov
EOVladimir Nabokov, trans. and commentary, Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (4 vols., 1964; rev. ed., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975)
LCNAVladimir Nabokov papers, Library of Congress
LTVVladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vra, ed. and trans. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (2014; corrected ed., New York: Vintage, 2017)
SMVladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1951; rev. ed., 1967; New York: Vintage, 1989)
SOVladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973)
V&VVladimir Nabokov, Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, ed. Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin (New York: Harcourt, 2008)
VNVladimir Nabokov
VNA BergVladimir 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 MontreuxVra Nabokovs archive of Vladimir Nabokovs papers, Montreux, as catalogued and transcribed or photocopied by Brian Boyd, 19791983
Introduction:
Thinker, Writer, Speaker, Person
Brian Boyd

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)

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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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