Mariella Frostrup interviews Michael Maar about ‘Speak, Nabokov’ on Radio 4

Michael Maar, author of Speak, Nabokov, was interviewed for Open Book on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday, 24th January.

The author of a new study of Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction, Michael Maar, explains how the often tumultuous events of the writer’s life, including the death of his younger brother in a concentration camp, imprinted themselves on his work in surprising ways.

Listen the programme here.