In 1959, after the great success of Lolita , the Nabokovs moved to Switzerland, from which Vladimir would return to America only twice before his death in 1977. On one of these occasions, in 1964, he read his work before a capacity audience in Harvard's Sanders Theater, where he had lectured in 1952. Portions of this reading are included here. This information is drawn from the pamphlet that accompanies Vladimir Nabokov at Harvard , a set of two cassette tapes issued by the Poetry Room at Harvard University in 1988. The sound files made available here are used by permission of the Nabokov Estate.
Dates are dates of recording.
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