Nabokov describes Speak, Memory in its foreword as a “re-Englishing of a Russian re-version of what had been an English re-telling of Russian memories in the first place” (12). Speak, Memory was his last autobiography in any language. In Speak, Memory (1967), he used some of the emendations from Drugie berega and ignored others.
This book was called Drugie berega , written and published in Russian. In 1953, he published a similar autobiography, reliving many of the same memories-though sometimes in quite different ways.
He collected these chapters and published them under the unifying title Conclusive Evidence in 1951. He published it piecemeal in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Partisan Review, and Harper’s. Vladimir Nabokov wrote his autobiography in English. Vladimir Nabokov, from a BBC television interview, July 1962
No, I think in images, and now and then a Russian phrase or an English phrase will form with the foam of the brainwave, but that’s about all. It is only a certain type of illiterate person who moves his lips as he re ads or ruminates. They don’t move their lips when they think. I don’t believe that people think in languages.
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