To mark the occasion of Dieter E. Zimmer's passing away on June 19, 2020, Brian Boyd has translated into English Dieter's 1959 review of Lolita. 

With Brian's permission, I am posting his English translation below (there is also a pdf version accessible here). The German original can be read below or in pdf here or in the context of Dieter's incomparable website. 

DIE ZEIT/Literatur, Nr.42, 16 October 1959, pp.9-10

Dear Nabokovians:

​Dieter Eduard Zimmer, essayist, editor, translator, an intellectually “incorruptible” “Renaissance man” (I quote from the German Wikipedia) and among much else Nabokov’s most important translator, editor, and longest-serving scholar, has died in Berlin on June 19, 2020, aged 85.

This year's Nabokov Readings in St. Petersburg, Russia, will feature an open online interview with Brian Boyd. To submit a question for an online event scheduled to take place on July 3, please follow this link. The Russian GoogleDocs form linked here prompts you to enter a valid email address and type in your question (note: the separate blank field for questions is mislabeled "your answer" at the time of this post's publication).

The Institute of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg, Russia, known as "the Pushkin House," will be conducting this year's Nabokov Readings online.

Just published:

The Five Senses in Nabokov's Works, edited by Julie Loison-Charles, Isabelle Poulin and Marie Bouchet (Palgrave McMillan, 2020). Please find the table of contents below.

Table of Contents