After having presented a literary program on French
TV for more than 20 years, Bernard Pivot has released a book that consists
in remembrances of his interviews with great writers of the century. Bernard
Pivot who named the program with VN in 1976 his proudest memory dedicates in
this book a few pages to the interview that preceded the show. It mainly
consists of anecdotes and savoury moments spent in Montreux when the piano tuner
was repeatedly striking the same key over and over. "Le bruit nous terrasera
tous" Nabokov had said.
References:
Bernard Pivot. Le Métier de Lire. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.