Half an hour of Nabokov! (and more)

Not the sort of thing I usually post here but I discovered this earlier today and it is just too much to pass up. The sound and picture are lousy. But who cares. I’ve read the descriptions many times and now I could finally watch it. And so can you! (Thanks to The Puget News.)

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more about “Recently Rediscovered 1“, posted with vodpod

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more about “Recently Rediscovered 2“, posted with vodpod

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more about “Recently Rediscovered 3“, posted with vodpod

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more about “Recently Rediscovered 4“, posted with vodpod

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more about “Recently Rediscovered 5“, posted with vodpod

I just wish someone would put together a DVD of all the existing Nabokov footage.

As an addendum, here are some YouTube tidbits.

You can find a clip from the famous Pivot interview (“Apostrophes”) – I distinctly remember all of it being available at some point but can’t find it right now.

And there’s also CBC’s “Close Up” with Nabokov and Trilling:

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And this short French documentary (but it contains material that can already be found in the longer film at the beginning of this post):

Also check out the sound recordings that can be found here.

As for photographs, today I feel like recommending this site (“Nabokov under Glass” from the New York Public Library) and also this one (Robert Nelson’s collection of Nabokov first editions) but there are more. Michael Juliar’s bibliographic blog is a fascinating project. And whatever you do, don’t forget about Zembla.