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Looking for the girl

Friday, 11th September 2009

I can't say I was desperate to see how Nabokov's masterpiece would work on the National's stage, and after reading Charles Spencer's review of the new production of "Lolita",  I'm even less inclined to make the journey to the South Bank:

This is the theatrical equivalent of a Reader’s Digest condensed book, and if that sounds a touch insulting, it’s meant to.
Much better, I reckon, to sit back and enjoy this vintage CBC interview -  unearthed by Terry Teachout -  in which the novelist swaps aphorisms with another giant of the age, the critic Lionel Trilling. Teachout has posted the first part. Here's the second, with the two heavyweights getting down to the serious business of talking about passion, Tolstoy and literature's most famous nymphet.

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