i am aglaya, nabatnikova director and writer, my guests are the writers andrey rubanov and anastasia 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 what you love, and he is an example of russian language skills for you, but at the same time 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 it is impossible for him, and he loves the governor and understands him and this lolita, too, us dollars. 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 his entire life up to 40 years he was 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, through america, it was not banned in fifty-eight. well, no mat

in nabokov, a literary critic, an english-to-letter translator and writers , a screenwriter , andrei rubanover? 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 is both, because, of course, he gave the first part of his life and career in russian, and only after moving to america did he begin to write, or rather, no, he wrote one novel in europe and true life is called, but then all his remaining novels were written in english and, of course, there are a lot of them, especially in lolita. i think we will talk about this, but they are connected precisely with america with american life. well, that's where it all came together. well, after the revolution, nabokov migrated to europe, then he left europe for america, and when he wrote in russian he had the pseudonym sirin vladimi