Vladimir Nabokov

VN note in the New Yorker, June 9 2025

By William Dane , 4 June, 2025
Hope the pdf attached O.K.

morgan_li

5 months ago

I too delighted in this revisit of my favorite Nabokov work.

Batuman is incorrect that Chapter 1, “The Perfect Past,” of Speak, Memory came out last in The New Yorker.  Chapter 15, "Gardens and Parks," came out last - June 9, 1950.  The Perfect Past came out April 7, 1950.