Comments on: Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita and Poems

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английский без акцента | Simbelmyne — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:20:00 +0000

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» Nabokov reads ‘Lolita’ The Essentials — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:45:00 +0000

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By: Glovebox

Glovebox — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:16:00 +0000

Excellent! I bought this Folkways album nearly 20 years ago from my local library for 60 pence. (Why libraries sell this sort of thing I really don’t know, but the death of the British Library System is a topic for another time.)

I love the precision of Nabokov’s reading of Quilty’s murder, in contrast to the pretty messy pantomime in Kubricks’s film. And the film manages to remove the horror of Nabokov’s description – murder as degradation:

“Master retired to the master bedroom with a burst of royal purple where his ear had been.”

I’m sure my copy is heavily scratched and I haven’t had access to a record player for 10 years at least, so thanks very much for this post. Very cool.