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Interviews
 
 
 

Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling discuss Lolita

Description:   The author and the critic converse with the CBC's Pierre Berton about Nabokov's explosive novel. Aired on CBC-TV's Close-Up on.  

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Date:   November 26, 1958   
Duration:   00:12:25  
 
 

Nabokov in Montreux

Description:   Robert Hughes interviews Vladimir Nabokov in September 1965 in Montreux, Switzerland.  

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Date:   September, 1965  
Duration:   00:28:25  
 
 

Speaking to James Mossman

Description:   Vladimir Nabokov Speaking to James Mossman, Montreux, Switzerland.  

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Date:   August 9, 1969  
Duration:   00:09:56  
 
 

Interview

Description:   Interview with Vladimir Nabokov .  

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Duration:   00:08:59  
 
 

Nabokov On Different Lolita Covers

Description:   Nabokov On Different Lolita Covers.  

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Duration:   00:01:33  
 
 

 

 

 

 
Documentaries
 
 
 

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lolita?

Description:   Documentary following writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith on the trail of Vladimir Nabokov, the elusive man behind the controversial novel and 1962 film, Lolita.   

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Date:   2009  
Duration:   00:54:17  
 
 

Lolita, My Most Difficult Book

Description:   The story of how the great Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov conceived and created his masterpiece 'Lolita', told in his own words and those of writers Antonia Byatt, Martin Amis, and Edmund White, his son Dmitri Nabokov, and biographer and pre-eminent Nabokov scholar Brian Boyd. Also Maurice Girodias of the legendary Olympia Press, the original publisher of one of the most controversial books of all time.   

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Date:   1989  
Duration:   00:58:45  
 
 

Interview and Documentary

Description:   Vladimir Nabokov Interview and Documentary.  

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Date:      
Duration:   00:57:48  
 

 

 

 

 
Audiobooks
 
 
 

COMING SOON

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Other
 
 
 

An Evening of Russian Poetry

Description:   Nabokov reads his poem: An evening of Russian Poetry.    

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Date:   1958  
Duration:   00:12:45  
 
 

Selected Poems and Prose

Description:   Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Poems and Prose, Recorded at 92nd Street, New York.  

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Date:   April 5, 1964  
Duration:   00:57:43  
 
 

Interview with Dmitri Nabokov

Description:   Conducted by Maxim D. Shrayer and recorded in Dmitri Nabokov's home in Montreux, Switzerland.   

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Date:   December 2011   
Duration:   00:18:58  
 
 

The Nabokovs playing chess

Description:   The Nabokovs playing chess.  

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Duration:   00:01:56