QUERY: Four different copies of
Vladimir Nabokov's "Speak,Memory" (a Library of America hardback
collection, a Vintage paperback and two distinct translations to
the Portuguese) and not one of them carries Nabokov's "Chapter
16"*
How is it possible to acquire an
individual copy of this last chapter? Will it
be (or has it been) published in any Nabokov magazine or
site online?
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* Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov
in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in
1966. The Everyman's Library 1999 edition includes, for the first
time, the previously unpublished "Chapter 16"–the most significant unpublished
piece of writing by the master, newly released by the Nabokov estate–which
provided an extraordinary insight into Speak, Memory. [ Harper, the book’s original publisher, rejected it for the 1951
edition.]