![]() ![]() Nabokov does do in "Conclusive Evidence" is to perform an exercise in memory. He does not even paint a clear picture of himself. Who would certainly repay closer acquaintance). He is not interested in characterizing anybody (although he does include tantalizingly brief glimpses of several characters Nabokov pays little attention to orderly chronology or to the usual narrative disciplines imposed by time and space. One of them is Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Conclusive Evidence." This collection of reminiscences of childhood and youth is not a conventional autobiography. But for most of us the details, the sensations and the emotions ofĬhildhood are buried deep beneath the silt of each year's obliterating flood.īut to a few persons the gift is granted to remember everything, or nearly everything. Room and bit us in the left calf, the time the storm came up at Mentor Beach and we saw the drowned woman, the time the big boy threw our cap out of the trolley car window. We remember dramatic high spots*the time the Pekingese rushed out of the upstairs sewing The newspapers in a time capsule, but without the aid of a psychoanalyst's prolonged and flattering interest very little of it is readily accessible. ![]() It may all be there, as carefully preserved in the subconscious mind as "Tell me about when you were little." Millions of parents have tried to respond to that often repeated request and been astonished to discover how little they remember. FebruBooks of the Times By ORVILLE PRESCOTT ![]()
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