Vladimir Nabokov

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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:20:12 -0500
From: Yuri Leving <leving@gwu.edu>
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Nabokov Exhibition in Washington, D.C.

The exhibition ?Nabokov?s LOLITA: 1955 ? 2005. Celebrating 50 years?
will be open next week in Washington, D.C. The exhibition is housed at
the Gelman Library of the George Washington University, conveniently
located just four blocks from the White House, minutes away from
Smithsonian museums and National Monuments. Admission to the
exhibition is free and it will be open through July 2005.

The purpose of this exhibition is to introduce a visual history of
Vladimir Nabokov?s life and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of
publication of LOLITA.

The exhibit features 24 original prints of Nabokov?s photographs by
the celebrated Swiss photographer Horst Tappe; rare European, American
and Russian editions of ?Lolita? (including first Olympia Press
edition, 1955, early Russian émigré editions, and other original
printings); fragments of the novel manuscript (facsimiles of the
original ?Lolita? note cards); correspondence of the writer with his
literary agents and publishers regarding publication of ?Lolita? in
the mid 1950s; a BBC Production documentary ?Vladimir Nabokov: Great
Writers of the 20th Century.?

The exhibit has been made possible through the support of Gelman
Library, GWU, Rare Books Department, Cornell University Library, and
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Special thanks to Mr. Dmitri
Nabokov.

Yuri Leving, Exhibition Curator.

The exhibition address:

The George Washington University
The Gelman Library
2130 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Tel.: 202-994-6558

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