In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography, the author seems as (i) an ornate prose style as with communicating, often in excruciating detail, the (ii) of a singular life, describing his family’s fall from aristocracy following the Bolshevik Revolution.
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unaccustomed to
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apotheosis
vicissitudes
generalities
