NABOKV-L post 0020103, Mon, 24 May 2010 10:15:31 -0400

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21 May 2010
“I Leave the Field of Ideas to Doctor Schweitzer and Doctor Zhivago”
"Lolita", ABC, Books, Lionel Trilling, Television, Vladimir Nabokov



Vladimir Nabokov



From the history of American television:



In the 1950’s ABC television Close-up! documentary series, John Daly interviews Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling, pt. 1—5:41 video—pt. 2 5:51 video



Nabokov lispingly delivers dismissive apothegms in an effete and frivolous style inevitably reminding one of Anthony Blanche, while Trilling is earnest, grave, serious, and sometimes just a bit obsequious.



Great lines:



“I don’t want to touch hearts, and I don’t even want to affect minds very much. What I want to produce is really that little sob in the spine of the artist reader. I leave the field of ideas to Doctor Schweitzer and Doctor Zhivago.”



“It was fun to breed her in my laboratory,” says Vladimir Nabokov of Lolita.











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