Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov

Playboy Interview: Vladimir NabokovFew authors of this generation have sparked more controversy with a single book than a former Cornell University professor with the resoundingly Russian name of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. "Lolita," his brilliant tragicomic novel about the nonplatonic love of a middle-aged man for a 12-year-old nymphet, has sold 2,500,000 copies in the United States alone.It has also been made into a topgrossing movie, denounced in the House of Commons, and banned...