Hear Vladimir Nabokov’s “My Russian Education” Read by Orhan Pamuk

Image by Rahul Narain, via Wikipedia

Below Orhan Pamuk reads Vladimir Nabokov’s “My Russ­ian Edu­ca­tion” and dis­cuss­es it with The New York­er’s fic­tion edi­tor, Deb­o­rah Treis­man. The sto­ry orig­i­nal­ly appeared in a 1948 edi­tion of The New York­er.

Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Lit­er­a­ture in 2006. Hear him also read “Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth” by Jorge Luis Borges here.

This read­ing will be added to our col­lec­tion, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Down­load Great Books for Free.

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