Think, Write, Speak

Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor

Author Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust and Brian Boyd

Edited by Anastasia Tolstoy and Brian Boyd

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A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final 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 émigré novelist whose stature…

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February 9, 2021

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Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, wrote an MA thesis that Vladimir Nabokov called "brilliant"; his biography of Nabokov won awards on four continents; his criticism has been translated into seventeen languages. He has edited Nabokov's English-language novels, autobiography, butterfly writings, and translations from Russian poetry.

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Vladimir Nabokov; Edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy

VLADIMIR NABOKOV studied at Cambridge University, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he moved to America, where he taught at Stanford, Wellesley, Cornell, and Harvard, and wrote some of his greatest works, including Speak, Memory; Lolita; and Pnin. In 1959, he returned to Europe, where he wrote Pale Fire and Ada. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.