USA: The Novel; Vladimir Nabokov
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- Title:
- USA: The Novel; Vladimir Nabokov
- Description:
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This program was filmed in Vladimir Nabokov's Swiss home as he corrected galleys, hunted butterflies, and spoke of his life and work. This episode is the first off-the-cuff, for-the-record filming to which Vladimir Nabokov, the author or "Lolita" and "Pale Fire," has ever consented to. Mr. Nabokov currently lives in Montreux, Switzerland where NET filmed him correcting galleys, collecting butterflies, and taking about his life and work. This American author and lepidopterist was born in St. Petersburg in 1899 into the Russian nobility. He left Russian in 1919, studied at Cambridge University in England, lived in Germany and France and then came to the United States in 1940, and became naturalized in 1945. He lectured at Wellesley College 1940-1941 and 1942-1948; was Research Fellow in Lepidoptera, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology 1942-1948, and professor of Russian and European Literature, Cornell University 1948-1959. He received Guggenheim Awards in 1943 and 1953, also an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 1951. His output includes works on butterflies, memoirs, biography (Nikolai Gogol), poetry, short stories, and novels in Russian and English including "Lolita" (1955) and "Pale Fire" (1962). Vladimir Nabokov now resides (mainly for family reasons) in Switzerland. He and his wife live in a hotel in Montreux. The episode shows him informally about the hotel - in his room, dining, and on the terrace. We also see him walking about the village, collecting butterflies, playing football and chess (his indoor sport), and talking freely about his life and work, literary likes and dislikes, method of work, satisfactions as a writer, and about European and American literature in general. USA: The Novel - Vladimir Nabokov is a 1966 National Educational Television production. Episode Running Time: 28:52 (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) In five episodes, USA: The Novel continues with the exploration of the state of the literary arts in the United States. This group of episodes starts with an introductory show which examines the major influences on the novelists of the last two decades and continues with episodes on individual authors, with each in a style that best suits the man featured in the episode. The 5 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on film. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Production company:
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- Producer:
- Hughes, Robert
- Director:
- Hughes, Robert
- Author:
- Hughes, Robert
- Producer:
- Hirschler, Kurt, 1931-1986
- Producer:
- Sameth, Jack
- Director:
- Macartney-Filgate, Terence
- Creator:
- Macartney-Filgate, Terence
- Editor:
- Hirschler, Kurt
- Interviewee:
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Date:
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January 30, 1966
- Format:
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Film/Video
- Genre:
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Documentary
- Location:
- Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
- Collection (local):
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
- Series:
- Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive > USA: The Novel
- Subjects:
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Literature
Biography
- Extent:
- 00:30:00
- Link to Item:
- https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-84zgn202
- Terms of Use:
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- Notes:
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Episode Number: 2
