Часть текста: Their suite of rooms is on the sixth floor, overlooking Lake Geneva, and the sounds of the lake are audible through the open doors of their small balcony. Since Mr. Nabokov does not like to talk off the cuff (or "Off the Nabocuff," as he said) no tape recorder was used. Mr. Nabokov ei! ther wrote out his answers to the questions or dictated them to the interviewer; in some instances, notes from the conversation were later recast as formal questions-and-answers. The interviewer was Nabokov's student at Cornell University in 1954, and the references are to Literature 311-312 (MWF, 12), a course on the Masterpieces of European Fiction (Jane Austen, Gogol, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Stevenson, Kafka, Joyce, and Proust). Its enrollment had reached four hundred by the time of Nabokov's resignation in 1959. The footnotes to the interview, except where indicated, are provided by the interviewer, Alfred Appel, Jr. For years bibliographers and literary journalists didn't know whether to group you under "Russian" or "American. "Now that you're living in Switzerland there seems to be complete agreement that you're American. Do you find this kind of distinction at all important regarding your identity as a writer? I have always maintained, even as a schoolboy in Russia, that the nationality of a worthwhile writer is of secondary importance. The more distinctive an insect's aspect, the less apt the...

2. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Playboy, 1964 г.

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Часть текста: mushroomed almost overnight from high repute among the literary cognoscenti-- which you bad enjoyed for more than 30 years-- to both acclaim and abuse as the world-renowned author of a sensational bestseller. In the aftermath of this cause celebre, do you ever regret having written Lolita? On the contrary, I shudder retrospectively when I recall that there was a moment, in 1950, and again in 1951, when I was on the point of burning Humbert Humbert's little black diary. No, I shall never regret Lolita. She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle-- its composition and its solution at the same time, since one is a mirror view of the other, depending on the way you look. Of course she completely eclipsed my other works-- at least those I wrote in English: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, my short stories, my book of recollections; but I cannot grudge her this. There is a queer, tender charm about that mythical nymphet. Though many readers and reviewers would disagree that her charm is tender, few would deny that it is queer-- so much so that when director Stanley Kubrick proposed his plan to make a movie of Lolita, you were quoted as saying, "Of course they'll have to change the plot. Perhaps they will make Lolita a dwarfess. Or they will make her 16 and Humbert 26. " Though you finally wrote the screenplay yourself, several reviewers took the film to task for watering down the central relationship. Were you satisfied with the final product? I thought the movie was absolutely first-rate. The four main actors deserve the very highest praise. Sue Lyon bringing that breakfast tray or childishly pulling on her sweater in the car-- these are moments of...

3. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The New York Times Book Review, 1968 г.

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Часть текста: satisfaction in interviews with Playboy, The Paris Review, Wisconsin Studies, Le Monde, La Tribune de Genève, etc. Furthermore, I like to see the proofs for checking last-minute misprints or possible little flaws of fact (dates, places). Being an unusually muddled speaker (a poor relative of the writer) I would like the stuff I prepared in typescript to be presented as direct speech on my part, whilst other statements which I may stammer out in the course of our chats, and the gist of which you might want to incorporate in The Profile, should be used, please, obliquely or paraphrastically, without any quotes. Naturally, it is for you to decide whether the background material should be kept separate in its published form from the question-and-answer section. I am leaving the attached material with the concierge because I think you might want to peruse it before we meet. I am very much looking forward to seeing you. Please give me a ring when you are ready." The text given below is that of the typescript. The interview appeared in The New York Times Book Review on May 12, 1968. How does VN live and relax? A very old Russian friend of ours, now dwelling in Paris, remarked recently when she was here, that one night, forty years ago, in the course of a little quiz at one of her literary parties in Berlin, I, being asked where I would like to live, answered, "In a large comfortable hotel." That is exactly what my wife and I are doing now. About every other year she and I fly (she) or sail (she and 1), back to our country of adoption but I must confess that I am a very sluggish traveler unless butterfly hunting is involved. For ...

4. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Time, 1969 г.

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Часть текста: just as one is not aware of sharing mannerisms with a detestable kinsman. I loathe Van Veen. The following two quotations seem closely related: "I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. " (Speak, Memory) and "pure time, perceptual time, tangible time, time free of content, context and running commentary-- this is my time and theme. All the rest is numerical symbol or some aspect of space. " (Ada). Will you give me a lift on your magic carpet to point out bow time is animated in the story of Van and Ada? In his study of time my creature distinguishes between text and texture, between the contents of time and its almost tangible essence. I ignored that distinction in my Speak, Memory and was mainly concerned with being faithful to the patterns of my past. I suspect that Van Veen, having less control over his imagination than I, novelized in his indulgent old age many images of his youth. You have spoken in the past of your indifference to music, but in Ada you describe time as "rhythm, the tender intervals between Stresses. " Are these rhythms musical,...

5. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 1 - 8

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Часть текста: four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns. 2 I was born in 1910, in Paris. My father was a gentle, easy-going person, a salad of racial genes: a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent, with a dash of the Danube in his veins. I am going to pass around in a minute some lovely, glossy-blue picture-postcards. He owned a luxurious hotel on the Riviera. His father and two grandfathers had sold wine, jewels and silk, respectively. At thirty he married an English girl, daughter of Jerome Dunn, the alpinist, and granddaughter of two Dorset parsons, experts in obscure subjectspaleopedology and Aeolian harps, respectively. My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over...

6. Смех в темноте. Глава 29

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Часть текста: который вот уже два или три дня был их соседом по столовой. Альбинус отступил на шаг, давая полковнику пройти. — Извините, — сказал полковник (добродушный малый). — Неплохая сегодня погодка? — Отличная, — согласился с ним Альбинус. — А где сегодня наши любовники? — поинтересовался полковник. — Что вы имеете в виду? — спросил Альбинус. — А как по-иному можно назвать тех, кто обнимается по углам (qui se pelotent dans tous les coins)? — сказал полковник, и в его фарфорово-синих, налитых кровью глазах появилось выражение, для которого у французов есть словечко goguenard [63] . — Мне не нравится лишь то, что они этим занимаются в саду, прямо под моим окном. Пожилой человек, знаете ли, и позавидовать может. — Что вы имеете в виду? — повторил Альбинус. — Не уверен, что мне удастся все это еще раз рассказать по-немецки, — сказал полковник смеясь. — Всего доброго, сударь. И на этом он ушел. А Альбинус вошел в лавку. — Какая чушь! — воскликнул он, пристально глядя на женщину, сидевшую на табуретке за прилавком. — Comment, Monsieur? [64] — спросила она. — Какая законченная чушь! — повторил он и застыл в углу да так и остался стоять там, морщась и путаясь под ногами у проходящих мимо людей. У Альбинуса возникло какое-то смутное ощущение, будто все его окружающее стало вдруг перевернутым, как в зеркале, и, чтобы понять смысл вещей, теперь как бы нужно читать текст в обратном порядке. Ощущение это совершенно не сопрягалось ни с болью, ни с удивлением. Просто на него накатило нечто темное, смутное и к тому же обволакивающе-бездонное, и он застыл в некоем подобии дымчато-беспомощного оцепенения, не пытаясь даже уклониться от обрушивающегося на него призрачного удара, словно до тех пор, пока подобное оцепенение длилось, это удивительное явление не способно было причинить ему никакого вреда. — Невозможно, —...

7. Кабачек Оксана: Врата в бессознательное - Набоков плюс. Литература

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Часть текста: Набоков плюс Литература Литература 1. Агамбен Дж. Открытое / Пер. с итал. и нем. Б. М. Скуратова. — Москва: РГГУ, 2012. — 112 с. 2. Александров В. Набоков и потусторонность [Электронный ресурс] / пер. с англ. Н. А. Анастасьевой. — Санкт-Петербург: Алетейа, 1999. — 320 с. — Режим доступа: http: //libatriam.net/read/483724/ 3. Алексеев А. И. Заметки о религиозности Ивана III // Исследования по истории средневековой Руси. К 80-летию Юрия Георгиевича Алексеева. — Москва ; Санкт-Петербург: Альянс-Архео, 2006. — С. 185–201. 4. Алёшина Ю., Базильян М., Белоусова И. Использование ромбического орнамента Архангельской области в современном трикотаже [Электронный ресурс]. — Режим доступа: http: //artzentr.narod.ru/sdpt/rombarch.htm 5. АллатРа. Книга, изменяющая мир [Электронный ресурс]. — Режим доступа: http: //allatra.tv/allatra/online/167-391-395 6. Андреев Д. А. Роза мира. Метафилософия истории. — Москва: Прометей, 1991. — 288 с. 7. Арктида (Гиперборея) [Электронный ресурс]. — Режим доступа:...

8. Брайан Бойд. Владимир Набоков: американские годы. Глава 15. "Евгений Онегин"

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Часть текста: возможно, неверен, но это метод. «Ответ моим критикам» …измученный, неловкий буквалист, отчаянно нащупывающий смутное слово, которое удовлетворило бы страстное стремление к точности, и накапливающий по ходу дела множество сведений, заставляющих приверженцев красивого камуфляжа лишь трепетать или глумиться. «Ответ моим критикам» 1 I «Меня будут помнить благодаря „Лолите“ и моему труду о „Евгении Онегине“», — предсказал в 1966 году Набоков 2 . По объему и затраченным усилиям его вызвавший столько споров перевод пушкинского шедевра и тысяча двести страниц сопроводительного комментария обращают остальные его работы в карликов. На то, чтобы сделать Пушкина доступным англоязычному читателю, он потратил столько же времени, сколько ушло на создание всех трех собственных его англоязычных шедевров: «Лолиты», «Бледного огня» и «Ады». Стоила ли затея подобных усилий? Насколько четыре тома его «Евгения Онегина» приближают нас к Пушкину — и к самому Набокову? Как смог писатель, которого, предположительно, в первую очередь занимает прежде всего стиль, а затем уж содержание, создать перевод, нарочито жертвующий каким бы то ни было стилистическим изяществом, чтобы с безжалостной верностью передать...

9. Lolita. Part Two. Chapters 9 - 16

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Часть текста: little person from France, was on the other hand a good example of a not strikingly beautiful child revealing to the perspicacious amateur some of the basic elements of nymphet charm, such as a perfect pubescent figure and lingering eyes and high cheekbones. Her glossy copper hair had Lolita’s silkiness, and the features of her delicate milky-white face with pink lips and silverfish eyelashes were less foxy than those of her likesthe great clan of intra-racial redheads; nor did she sport their green uniform but wore, as I remember her, a lot of black or cherry darka very smart black pullover, for instance, and high-heeled black shoes, and garnet-red fingernail polish. I spoke French to her (much to Lo’s disgust). The child’s tonalities were still admirably pure, but for school words and play words she resorted to current American and then a slight Brooklyn accent would crop up in her speech, which was amusing in a little Parisian who went to a select New England school with phoney British aspirations. Unfortunately, despite “that French kid’s uncle” being “a millionaire,” Lo dropped Eva for some reason before I had had time to enjoy in my modest way her fragrant presence in the Humbert open house. The reader knows what importance I attached to having a bevy of page...

10. Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Chapter eight

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Часть текста: the aged Derzhavin noticed us — and blessed us 4 as he descended to the grave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III And I, setting myself for law only the arbitrary will of passions, sharing emotions with the crowd, 4 I led my frisky Muse into the hubbub of feasts and turbulent discussions — the terror of midnight patrols; and to them, in mad feasts, 8 she brought her gifts, and like a little bacchante frisked, over the bowl sang for the guests; and the young people of past days 12...

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