EDITOR's NOTICE. Nikolai Mel'nikov, who is attached to the Department of the Theory of Literature at Moscow University, is a specialist on Russian emigre writers--especially Nabokov. If anyone out there can help him with copies of the items below, please contact either Dr. Mel'nikov or me.

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Subject:  N.Mel'nikov(interview items)
Date:  Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:28:03 -0000
From:  <teolit@philol.msu.ru>
To:  "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gte.net>
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  Here the items of Nabokov's interview which are necessary for my research: 1)"My child Lolita", interview by Alan Nordstrom // Ivy magazine (New Haven). 1959. February, p.28.2) The Author of "Lolita", int. by Neil Hickey // American Weekly. 1959. Oct.4, pp.16-17.3) Tandi que Lolita fait le tour du monde l'entomologiste Nabokov, l'agronome Robbe-Grillet echangent // Arts, lettres, spectacles, musique, 1959. # 746 (Oct.28 - 3 Nov.), p.4.4) int. by Lee Belser // Los Angeles Evening Mirror News. 1959. July 31.5) int. by Claude Mercadie // Nice-Matin. 1961. April 13.6) int. by Rosalie Marcae // Daily Express. 1961. April 8.7) "On the Banks of Lake Leman - Mr. Nabokov Reflects on "Lolita" and "Onegin", int. by Douglas Davis // National Observer. 1964. June 29, p.17.8) [unsigned int.] // Journal de Montreux. 1964. January 23.9) int. by Guy de Belleval // Journal de Geneve. 1965. March 13.10) int. by Nurit Berettzky // Ma'ariv. 1970. January 19.11) An Old Magican Named Nabokov Writes and Lives in Splendid Exile, int. by James Saulter // People. 1975. March 17, pp.60-64.12) Interview with Nabokov // Ithaca post. 1977. January 30.  Sincerely yoursNikolai Mel'nikov