’s only about a novel, and not about poetry, and that we we learn that the unapproachable snotlet navokovte john barth, he was a generous reader, in fact, the assessments he handed out can be harsh if we are talking about thomas mann or maxim gorky, and yes thomasman, my favorite, or very flattering, like sasha sokhalov, or... we continue our conversation, we talk about vladimir nabokov, about his biography, about his books, and my interlocutors, today the head of the nabokov center of the institute of russian literature, russian academy of sciences, pushkin house, tatyana alegovna panomareva and literary critic, journalist, researcher of nabokov’s work, igor kiriyenko. we have come to the most important thing, just recently a huge, meaningful archive of nabokov returned to russia, now it is located in the pushkin house, at the institute of russian literature, the russian academy of sciences, you can say that you are its custodian, so it’s correct to say, yes, formally, no , formally, after all, i’m not a custodian, i’m more of a scientific supervisor, and that’s what i’m after all, this