Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Vladimir Nabokov discusses "Lolita" part 1 of 2

I had no idea that this was on YouTube until I read about it on James Wolcott's blog. I'm enough of a Nabokov geek that I read not just his fiction but also his books of lectures, so I was thrilled. Perhaps not surprisingly, his personal manner seems more like an Oxbridge don than anything else, but you certainly wouldn't think "Russian emigre." But he was. In the century of exiles, he was an exemplar.

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