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and he continued to write and publish a newspaper even as an emigre.
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He was assassinated in 1922 in Europe on account of his
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publishing activities.
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Nabokov was very, very fond of his parents.
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He has these luminous, luminous essays about his life as a
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child in this sort of perfectly intact aristocratic world,
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and in that picture his mother and father loom very large and
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in a very fond light.
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Nearly invisible are his siblings.
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He had two brothers and two sisters, and it's amazing,
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when you read his memoirs, how invisible they are.
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This is one thing I find striking about those memoirs,