anastasia tolstaya was my guest literature sheep translator nabokov

director, writer, today my guest is anastasia tolstaya, a specialist in nabokov, a literary critic.to english and writers screenwriter andrey rubanov we will discuss lolita nabokov uh, why is this innovative scandalous novel and why did he make nabokov a world star? nastya, please tell me, is nabokov an american writer, as he called himself, or a russian writer? this is a difficult question, and in fact, at oxford , where she taught for a long time, he fell between these chairs, because the english department said that this was an american writer in russian they said that this was an english writer. in general , they practically don’t teach it, because they don’t understand how they can’t figure it out. yes, yes, but in fact he was both, because, of course, the first part of his life and career he became in russian as well. only now, after moving to america, he began to write, or rather, no, he wrote one novel in europe and called true life, but then all his remaining novels were written in english and, of course, there are a lot of them, especially in lolita ya i think we will talk

i am aglaya, nabatnikova director and writer, my guests are the writers andrey rubanov and anastasia tolstaya, a specialist in nabokov e, a literary critic translator into english, we are discussing lolita and a novel that is made by a letter by a world star. andrey, please tell me, i know that you are you love, and nabokov is an example of russian language skills for you, but at the same time, he is very cold and it seems to me that he does not like his heroes. it doesn't turn you off in your best books. he loves, of course, his heroes, because this is not possible, and he loves the governor and understands him and this lolita , too, a dollar cgs. he, too, either he loves her, or tries to love her, as he tried to love america because he came there , because she gave him shelter, she gave him some more or less prosperous life, which he was deprived of all his up to 40 years . he uh poor. and he glorified with you. she gave him no. well, as if, again, through europe, first it was printed in france, then in england. and only then, in some fifty-ninth year , fifty-eight. well, no matter how they