I can see Jansy's point, but in a way it makes me all the more
indignant. Is not someone who accepts money to give a public
interview and then becomes an "unreliable interviewee", by lying
(in, for example, a journal for which his admiring readers pay good
money), dishonouring his contract? Of course, it's only an
hypothesis that he was lying. But isn't it fairly clear by now that
when Nabokov imagines a character molesting a minor female he is
somehow "interested" in that imagined young girl in a way he
explicitly and expressly pretends, in interviews, he is not.
Perhaps we should have been warned by his admission that his
afterword to the paradigm book for this discussion "may" strike him
himself as an "impersonation" of Vladimir Nabokov talking about his
own book.
Anthony Stadlen