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Часть текста: suspicion, I would eagerly pay for both sections of one double unit, each containing a double bed. I wondered what type of foursome this arrangement was even intended for, since only a pharisaic parody of privacy could be attained by means of the incomplete partition dividing the cabin or room into two communicating love nests. By and by, the very possibilities that such honest promiscuity suggested (two young couples merrily swapping mates or a child shamming sleep to earwitness primal sonorities) made me bolder, and every now and then I would take a bed-and-cot or twin-bed cabin, a prison cell or paradise, with yellow window shades pulled down to create a morning illusion of Venice and sunshine when actually it was Pennsylvania and rain. We came to know nous connmes, to use a Flaubertian intonationthe stone cottages under enormous Chateaubriandesque trees, the brick unit, the adobe unit, the stucco court, on what the Tour Book of the Automobile Association describes as...

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Часть текста: Dolly who bullied her. With Linda Hall the school tennis champion, Dolly played singles at least twice a week: I suspect Linda was a true nymphet, but for some unknown reason she did not comewas perhaps not allowed to cometo our house; so I recall her only as a flash of natural sunshine on an indoor court. Of the rest, none had any claims to nymphetry except Eva Rosen. Avis ws a plump lateral child with hairy legs, while Mona, though handsome in a coarse sensual way and only a year older than my aging mistress, had obviously long ceased to be a nymphet, if she ever had been one. Eva Rosen, a displaced 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 girls, consolation prize nymphets,...

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Часть текста: magpies outside, 12 and the hills softly overspread with winter's brilliant carpeting. All's bright, all's white around. II Winter! The peasant, celebrating, in a flat sledge inaugurates the track; his naggy, having sensed the snow, 4 shambles at something like a trot. Plowing up fluffy furrows, a bold kibitka flies: the driver sits upon his box 8 in sheepskin coat, red-sashed. Here runs about a household lad, upon a hand sled having seated “blackie,” having transformed himself into the steed; 12 the scamp already has frozen a finger. He finds it both painful and funny — while his mother, from the window, threatens him... III But, maybe, pictures of this kind will not attract you; all this is lowly nature; 4 there is not much refinement here. Warmed by the god of inspiration, another poet in luxurious language for us has painted the first snow 8 and all the shades of winter's delectations. 27 He'll captivate you, I am sure of it, when he depicts in flaming verses secret promenades in sleigh; 12 but I have no intention of contending either with him at present or with you, singer of the young Finnish Maid! 28 IV Tatiana (being Russian at heart, herself not knowing why) loved, in all its cold beauty, 4 a Russian winter: rime in the sun upon a frosty day, and sleighs, and, at late dawn, the radiance of the rosy snows, 8 and gloam of Twelfthtide eves. Those evenings in the ancient fashion were celebrated in their house: the servant girls from the whole stead 12 told their young ladies' fortunes and every year made prophecies to them of military husbands and the march. V...

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Часть текста: offered me: it consisted mainly of thinking up and editing perfume ads. I welcomed its desultory character and pseudoliterary aspects, attending to it whenever I had nothing better to do. On the other hand, I was urged by a war-time university in New York to complete my comparative history of French literature for English-speaking students. The first volume took me a couple of years during which I put in seldom less than fifteen hours of work daily. As I look back on those days, I see them divided tidily into ample light and narrow shade: the light pertaining to the solace of research in palatial libraries, the shade to my excruciating desires and insomnias of which enough has been said. Knowing me by now, the reader can easily imagine how dusty and hot I got, trying to catch a glimpse of nymphets (alas, always remote) playing in Central Park, and how repulsed I was by the glitter of deodorized career girls that a gay dog in one of the offices kept unloading upon me. Let us skip all that. A dreadful breakdown sent me to a sanatorium for more than a year; I went back to my workonly to be hospitalized again. Robust outdoor life seemed to promise me some relief. One of my favorite doctors, a charming cynical chap with a little brown beard, had a brother, and this brother was about to lead an expedition into arctic Canada. I was attached to it as a “recorder of psychic reactions.” With two young botanists and an old carpenter I ...

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Часть текста: with Nabokov's corrections, additions, deletions, occasional slips of the pen, and references to previous and subsequent installments of the course. I have limited myself to what editing seemed necessary for the presentation of the lectures in essay form. If Nabokov had been alive, he might perhaps have performed more radical surgery. He might also have added that the gruesome throes of realistic suicide he finds unacceptable onstage (in "The Tragedy of Tragedy") are now everyday fare on kiddies' TV, while "adult" entertainment has long since outdone all the goriness of the Grand Guignol. He might have observed that the aberrations of theatrical method wherein the illusion of a barrier between stage and audience is shattered - a phenomenon he considered "freakish" - are now commonplace: actors wander and mix; the audience is invited to participate; it is then applauded by the players in a curious reversal of roles made chic by Soviet performers ordered to emulate the mise-en-sce´ne of party congresses; and the term "happening" has already managed to grow obsolescent. He might have commented that the quest for originality for its own sake has led to ludicrous excesses and things have taken their helter-skelter course in random theatre as they have in random music and in random painting. Yet Nabokov's own plays demonstrate that it is possible to respect the rules of drama and still be original, just as one can write original poetry without neglecting the basic requirements of prosody, or play brilliant tennis, to paraphrase T. S. Eliot, without taking down the net. There were those who considered Father's professorial persona odd and vaguely improper. Not only was he...

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Часть текста: bit out of the ordinary, or so he prissily thought. Noticing one night that my box of chessmen was broken, he sent me next morning, with a little lad of his, a copper case: it had an elaborate Oriental design over the lid and could be securely locked. Once glance sufficed to assure me that it was one of those cheap money boxes called for some reason “luizettas” that you buy in Algiers and elsewhere, and wonder what to do with afterwards. It turned out to be much too flat for holding my bulky chessmen, but I kept itusing it for a totally different purpose. In order to break some pattern of fate in which I obscurely felt myself being enmeshed, I had decideddespite Lo’s visible annoyanceto spend another night at Chestnut Court; definitely waking up at four in the morning, I ascertained that Lo was still sound asleep (mouth open, in a kind of dull amazement at the curiously inane life we all had rigged up for her) and satisfied myself that the precious contents of the “luizetta” were safe. There, snugly wrapped in a white woolen scarf, lay a pocket automatic: caliber. 32, capacity of magazine 8 cartridges, length a little under one ninth of Lolita’s length, stock checked walnut, finish full blued. I had inherited it from the late Harold Haze, with a 1938 catalog which cheerily said in part: “Particularly well adapted for use in the home and car as well as on the person.” There it lay, ready for instant service on the person or persons, loaded and fully cocked with the slide lock in safety position, thus precluding any accidental discharge. We must remember that a pistol is the Freudian symbol of the Ur-father’s central...

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Часть текста: Набокова Замысел и его воплощение Находчивая Мнемозина Архивные материалы к мемуарам Набокова 1 Книга воспоминаний Набокова, известная русскому читателю как «Другие берега» (1954), была начата в середине 30‑х годов в Европе серией автобиографических очерков на французском и английском языках, претерпела ряд метаморфоз в 40‑х годах, печаталась отдельными рассказами в американских журналах с 1943 по 1951 год, и наконец увидела свет в феврале 1951 года под названием «Conclusive Evidence. A Memoir» («Убедительное доказательство. Воспоминания»). Это интригующее заглавие из юридического словаря вскоре, однако, было заменено более броским – «Speak, Memory» («Свидетельствуй, память»), под которым автобиографический роман Набокова издавался до 1966 года, когда вышла его уточненная и дополненная редакция «Speak, Memory. An Autobiography Revisited» («Свидетельствуй, память. Пересмотренная автобиография»). Но и после этого Набоков не оставлял мыслей продолжать книгу, упомянув в самом предисловии к ней о намерении однажды написать «Свидетельствуй дальше, память» («Speak on, Memory»), посвященную американским годам его жизни (1940–1960). В 1973 году он сообщил издательству «McGraw‑Hill» о своем определенном желании написать вторую часть воспоминаний – «Свидетельствуй, Америка»: У меня уже собрана коллекция заметок, дневников, писем и проч., но, чтобы как следует описать мои американские годы, потребуются расходы, поскольку мне нужно будет вновь посетить несколько мест в...

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Часть текста: There was in the fiery phantasm a perfection which made my wild delight also perfect, just because the vision was out of reach, with no possibility of attainment to spoil it by the awareness of an appended taboo; indeed, it may well be that the very attraction immaturity has for me lies not so much in the limpidity of pure young forbidden fairy child beauty as in the security of a situation where infinite perfections fill the gap between the little given and the great promisedthe great rosegray never-to-be-had. Mes fentres! Hanging above blotched sunset and welling night, grinding my teeth, I would crowd all the demons of my desire against the railing of a throbbing balcony: it would be ready to take off in the apricot and black humid evening; did take offwhereupon the lighted image would move and Even would revert to a rib, and there would be nothing in the window but an obese partly clad man reading the paper. Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature’s reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me. “ Savez-vous qu’ dix ans ma petite tait folle de voius?” said a woman I ...

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Часть текста: Перемещения из одной географической или литературной среды в другую связаны с проблемой перевода культур — с интерпретацией одной культуры через другую. В «Лолите» Америка представлена с точки зрения наблюдателя-иностранца, Новый Свет увиден глазами Старого. Восприятие Гумбертом его приемной родины в значительной степени определяется европейским искусством, в первую очередь искусством романтизма. Восхищаясь американской природой, он говорит о «шатобриановских деревьях» [7] , проецируя фикциональные французские деревья на те ильмы, клены и дубы, которые находятся перед его глазами. Шатобриан на самом деле не видел всех тех деревьев, которые упомянуты в «Рене» и «Атала» (последнее заглавие относится к одному из самых густо позолоченных деревянных индейцев в истории литературы). Персонаж по имени Атала — результат осуществленного французским романтиком приложения руссоистских идей к воображаемому благородному дикарю, импортированному из Америки. Гумберт говорит о неких загадочных «видах североамериканской...

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Часть текста: 0,8 0,3 1,2 0,25 2,2 Пятистишия 0,6 1,8 0,5 1,7 2,1 Онегинская строфа 0,4 — 0,25 — — Девятистишия 0,25 — — 0,25 — Десятистишия 0,25 0,1 — — — Двенадцатистишия 0,25 0,4 — 0,5 — Набоковские показатели 142 очевидным образом тяготеют к усреднённым стандартам, что свидетельствует о сознательной ориентации поэта на классику. И теоретически, и практически он придерживался золотого античного правила, освященного непререкаемым для него авторитетом Пушкина, — «Ничего слишком!». Львиная доля набоковских произведений использует нейтральные четверостишия, астрофические построения и нетождественные строфы. Все остальные модификации распределяются довольно равномерно, если не считать заметного предпочтения, которое поэт оказывал всеобщему любимцу — сонету, но и здесь он не превышает, подобно Волошину, негласно установленных соотношений. Наибольший интерес при подобном распределении строфического репертуара представляют, конечно, не те формы, которые благодаря своему «многолюдству» утратили, может быть, и свойственную им изначально индивидуальность, а те, которые выделяются из «толпы» хотя бы своей уникальностью. Обращение к ним менее всего продиктовано безликой традицией, автоматизмом или следованием хрестоматийным образцам. Каждый раз, особенно при однократном употреблении, оно — результат нарочитого намерения, так или иначе осознанной, продуманной установки на достижение определённого изобразительно-выразительного эффекта. По одному разу Набоков в пределах нашего материала обращается к трём строфам: 9-, 10- и 12-стишиям, дважды к онегинской строфе, трижды — к пятистишиям, четырежды — к трёхстишиям и по пять раз к 7- и 6-стишиям. Все они малоупотребительны сами по себе, правда, по разным причинам. 7-, 9- и в меньшей мере 3-стишия непопулярны как строфы с нечётным количеством строк из-за отсутствия столь ценимой в разбитой на одинаковые порции стихотворной речи симметрии и не всегда уместного ввиду неизбежного утроения рифмующегося созвучия эффекта обманутого...

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