The genuine article.
It’s not quite Vladimir Nabokov (witness the video of the real thing on video here), but rather the actor Christopher Plummer takes a shot at performing the Russian author, who taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959.
There doesn’t appear to be much online about Peter Medak‘s short television film from 1989, Nabokov on Kafka, which dramatizes Nabokov’s lectures on Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Despite NEH funding and TV airing, this film seems to have pretty much disappeared from public awareness. Certainly I had never heard of it before. Anyone know anything about this quirky show?
Thanks to 3quarksdaily for pointing it out.