Nabokov on Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita in a 1958 appearance on CBC-TV’s Close-Up.
Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita in a 1958 appearance on CBC-TV’s Close-Up.
There were too few butterflies in Atlanta for Vladimir Nabokov’s tastes. In a letter to his wife Vera (dated October 11, 1942), the astute lepidopterist complained that the city was too far above sea level (1,000 feet) to do much in the way of butterfly catching.
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