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Speak, Memory Narrator:

Who is the narrator, can she or he read minds, and, more importantly, can we trust her or him?

First Person (Central Narrator): Vladimir Nabokov

As has been discussed elsewhere, we get two first person points of view in this autobiography: Vladimir the young boy, going through the events of the story, and Nabokov, the older man, looking back and ruminating on his life. Because of this, there's a kind of satisfying omniscience, where we get to live along with Vladimir while Nabokov gives us the skinny on what's going on beyond and behind the moment.