"Memory is, really, in itself, a tool, one of the many tools that an artist uses; and some recollections, perhaps intellectual rather than emotional, are very brittle and sometimes apt to lose the flavor of reality when they are immersed by the novelist in his book, when they are given away to characters."
— Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Date
July, 1962; November 22, 1962; 1973
Metaphor
"Memory is, really, in itself, a tool, one of the many tools that an artist uses; and some recollections, perhaps intellectual rather than emotional, are very brittle and sometimes apt to lose the flavor of reality when they are immersed by the novelist in his book, when they are given away to characters."
Metaphor in Context
Memory is, really, in itself, a tool, one of the many tools that an artist uses; and some recollections, perhaps intellectual rather than emotional, are very brittle and sometimes apt to lose the flavor of reality when they are immersed by the novelist in his book, when they are given away to characters.
(p. 12)
(p. 12)
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Reading
Citation
Nabokov, Vladimir. Strong Opinions (New York: Vintage International, 1990).
Date of Entry
04/01/2011
