With coots and tufted ducks.' The first assemblage of these recollections was published here in 1951 as 'Conclusive Evidence' ('conclusive evidence of my having existed'). Held in its hidden hollow various maps, timetables, a collection of matchboxes, a chip of ruby glass, and even*as I now realize*the view from my balcony of Geneva lake, of its ripples and glades of light, black-dotted today at teatime, Matter of fact, the initial essay of the series was written in French and published in Paris in 1936 the rest were in English and written in America, in an order 'established in 1936, at the placing of the cornerstone which had already Nazaire, and covering 37 years, from August, 1903 to May, 1940, with only a few sallies into later space-time.' As a In a now-characteristicįoreword (bibliography, 18th thoughts, rabbit punches for dunderheaded critics), he elucidates the genesis of this 'present, final edition' of Speak, Memory'*'a systematically correlated assemblage of personal recollections He himself, of course, has become something of an acrobat, supplely curling himself between his native language, Russian, and his first literate language, English. Other things) that Conrad never wrote in Polish. He objects to the comparison, noting (among Ladimir Nabokov, the bilingual writer, has at one time or another been compared to Joseph Conrad. JanuEvidence of the Hunt, Clues of a Past By ELIOT FREMONT-SMITH Books of the Times SPEAK, MEMORY: An Autiobiography Revisited

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