Vladimir Nabokov Montreux, 1973
STRONG OPINIONS. INTERVIEWS
4. Anonymous (1962)
2. BBC Television (1962)
3. Playboy (1964)
4. Life (1964)
5. TV13 NY (1965)
6. Wisconsin Studies (1967)
7. The Paris Review (1967)
8. The New York Times Book Review (1968)
9. BBC2 (1968)
10. Time (1969)
11. The New York Times (1969)
12. Sunday Times (1969)
13. BBC2 (1969)
14. Vogue (1969)
15. Now (1970)
16. The New York Times (1971)
17. The New York Times Book rew (1972)
18. Swiss Broadcast (1972?)
19. Bayerischer Rundfunk (197172)
20. Anonymous Vogue (1972)
22. Anonymous (1972)
1
On the morning of June 5, 1962, the Queen Elizabeth brought my wife and me from Cherbourg to New York for the film premiere of Lolita. On the day of our arrival three or four journalists interviewed me at the St. Regis hotel. 1 have a little cluster of names jotted down in my pocket diary but am not sure which, if any, refers to that group. The questions and answers were typed from my notes immediately after the interview.
Interviewers do not find you a particularly stimulating person. Why is that so?
I pride myself on being a person with no public appeal. I have never been drunk in my life. I never use schoolboy words of four letters. I have never worked in an office or in a coal mine. I have never belonged to any club or group. No creed or school has had any influence on me whatsoever. Nothing bores me more than political novels and the literature of social intent.