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Speak, Memory Steaminess Rating

Exactly how steamy is this story?

PG-13

Nabokov may accuse (or brag about) his younger self of chasing girls, but mostly his head is wrapped up in trying to figure out the complicated choreography of being a young boy about to lose all sense of home.

Spoiler alert: here's the part of the book where he loses his virginity:

In one particular pine grove everything fell into place, I parted the fabric of fancy, I tasted reality. (12.1.6)

So, yeah. That's about as steamy as it gets.