Nabokov's Fifth ArcIn his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series. The first four arcs of the spiral of Nabokovs lifehis youth in Russia, voluntary exile in Europe, two decades spent in the United States, and the final years of his life in Switzerlandare now followed by a fifth arc, his continuing life in literary history, which this volume both