Brian Boyd — Nabokov, Lolita, and a History of Censorship | Free to Speak
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Brian Boyd discusses the censorship history of Nabokov's 'Lolita' and the author's life in exile.
New Zealand banned it. So did France, Australia and South Africa, and every American publisher who saw the manuscript in 1954 turned it down. Brian Boyd, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland and the world's leading Nabokov scholar, joins Dane Giraud to trace the censorship history of the twentieth century's most contested masterpiece. They cover Nabokov's extraordinary life in exile, why he wrote a confession narrated by a predator, the Paris press t...
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