Vladimir Nabokov was a self-described memorist. From a very early age he knew that preserving the past was not only important, making it ce
Writers have placed love at the center of their fiction for centuries, using it as metaphor, showpiece, memlite, eternal conundrum - but Lolita and Gatsby stand out for their rootedness in the past and their understanding that true love is not a matter of happenstance or circumstance, but conditioned









