Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov is a collection of interviews with Vladimir Nabokov conducted over several decades, offering direct insight into his literary principles, aesthetic beliefs, and famously uncompromising opinions. Nabokov discusses his own works, the art of fiction, translation, memory, chess, and his disdain for political, sociological, and Freudian readings of literature. The volume captures his wit, precision, and polemical energy, as well as his insistence on artistic autonomy and exactitude.

Together, the interviews form an informal intellectual autobiography, illuminating Nabokov’s creative process and critical stance while revealing the personality behind the prose—brilliant, combative, playful, and exacting.