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Часть текста: black Humberland, with rash curiosity; she surveyed it with a shrug of amused distaste; and it seemed to me now that she was ready to turn away from it with something akin to plain repulsion. Never did she vibrate under my touch, and a strident “what d’you think you are doing?” was all I got for my pains. To the wonderland I had to offer, my fool preferred the corniest movies, the most cloying fudge. To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she wouldinvariably, with icy precisionplump for the former. There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. Did I mention the name of that milk bar I visited a moment ago? It was, of all things, The Frigid Queen. Smiling a little sadly, I dubbed her My Frigid Princess. She did not see the wistful joke. Oh, d not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impressin that I did not manage to be happy. Readeer must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness. For there is no other bliss on earth comparable to that of fondling a nymphet. It is hors concours , that bliss, it belongs to another class, another plane of sensitivity. Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradisea paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flamesbut still a paradise. The able psychiatrist who studies my caseand...

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Часть текста: inserted questions). That convenient method has been used to mutual 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 that purpose we usually go to Italy where my son and translator (from Russian into English) lives; the knowledge of Italian he has...

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Часть текста: именно как семиотического вопроса. Как указывает Минц, в лирических произведениях Блока авторские даты становятся самостоятельными знаками, обладающими как собственными тематическими и эстетическими функциями, так и мощным потенциалом связывания текстов. Кроме того, как и другие элементы текста, даты могут функционировать метонимически , активизируя в рамках одного произведения широкие литературные и экстра-литературные (т. е. исторические) области цитирования.[2] Названное свойство связывает вопрос дат с более широкой проблемой интертекстуальности и дает основание исследовать поэтику Набокова под этим углом. Суеверные приметы Плодотворная идея подобного исследования восходит к утверждению самого Набокова, сказавшего в интервью: “Меня, как и Пушкина, завораживают роковые даты” (SO, 75). В своем комментарии к “Евгению Онегину” Набоков касается попыток Пушкина предсказать дату собственной смерти, замечая, что “суеверность поэта была почти болезненной” (ЕО2, 128). Отсылка здесь — среди прочих возможных подтекстов — к стихотворению Пушкина 1829 года “Брожу ли я вдоль улиц шумных”[3], реминисценции которого часто возникают в прозе Набокова. Герой “Пнина” рассказывает своим американским студентам, что Пушкин...

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Часть текста: of names enclosed with an annual volume of a monthly journal, the sheer number of these journals and volumes (in my father's library there were more than a thousand of the latter alone, representing a good hundred journals) - all this had to be overcome in order to hunt down the necessary reference, if it existed at all. Nonetheless, even in my exceptionally propitious situation things were not easy: Russia, particularly in the north, dwelt in a mist, while the local lists, scattered through the journals, totally haphazard, scanty, and cruelly inaccurate in nomenclature, only maddened me when at last I ferreted them out. My father was the preeminent entomologist of his time, and very well off to boot, but the ordinary amateur, unable to dispatch his scouts throughout Russia, and denied the opportunity - or not knowing how - to gain access to specialized collections and libraries (and an accidental boon, the hasty inspection of collections at a lepidopterological society or in the cellar of...

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Часть текста: как эстетическая позиция (К проблеме: Набоков и Бергсон) Довольно многочисленные реплики Набокова, посвященные эстетической проблематике, кажутся крайне незатейливыми, если не сказать банальными. У читателя возникает ощущение странного зазора между сложной прозой и почти тривиальными метавысказываниями писателя. На мой взгляд, этот зазор стал следствием того, что отнюдь не поскупившийся на эстетические декларации Набоков так, кажется, никогда и не проговорил, не эксплицировал основания своей весьма продуманной позиции, последовательно реализованной, воплощенной им в литературной практике. Скупо и лаконично упомянув об истоках своей эстетической точки зрения, Набоков не объяснил, чем он обязан авторам, тексты которых, несомненно, помогли Сирину ее сформулировать. В центре настоящей работы — попытка прояснить, проартикулировать основания мышления Набокова и указать на некоторые важные для понимания его творчества контексты, которые, на мой взгляд, демонстрируют всю небанальность эстетического выбора романиста. Излишним было бы добавлять, что на исчерпывающую полноту данная работа не претендует. 1 Опубликованный не так давно “берлинский” доклад Набокова “On Generalities”, датированный автором 1926 годом [Долинин 1999: 14], продемонстрировал со всей очевидностью остроту реакции молодого эмигрантского писателя Сирина на модные историцистские спекуляции 1920-х годов. Следует при этом отметить, что аргументация Набокова, направленная против шпенглеров больших и малых, содержит в себе некоторый парадокс. С одной стороны, писатель отказывается от “общих” определений, ...

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Часть текста: 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 forelimb. I was now glad I had it with meand even more glad that I had learned to use it two years before, in the pine forest around my and Charlotte’s glass lake. Farlow, with whom I had roamed those remote woods, was an...

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Часть текста: tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing 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...

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Часть текста: 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 taxonomist is to glance first of all at the locality label under the pinned specimen in order to decide which of several vaguely described races it should be assigned to. The writer's art is his real passport. His identity should be immediately recognized by a special pattern or unique coloration. His habitat may confirm the correctness of the determination but should not lead to it. Locality labels are known to have been faked by unscrupulous insect dealers. Apart from...

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Часть текста: Набоков В. В. - Зензинову В. М., 31 марта 1949 г. НАБОКОВ — ЗЕНЗИНОВУ <Итака> 31 March 1949 {105} Dorogoy Vladimir Michaylovich. {106} Splendid. The seventh of may is a most convenient day. I think the title should be simply «Stichi i commentarii». {107} Thanks for all the trouble you are taking in fixing a suitable date. Yours V. Nabokov {108} Примечания {105} Напечатано на машинке с латинским шрифтом. 31 марта 1949 (англ.). {106} Дорогой Владимир Михайлович (транслитерация). {107} «Стихи и комментарии» (транслитерация). Речь идет о вечере В. Набокова, состоявшемся 7 мая 1949 г. Текст пригласительного билета: ОБЩЕСТВО ВЗАИМОПОМОЩИ «НАДЕЖДА» приглашает Вас на ВЕЧЕР В. В. НАБОКОВА-СИРИНА «СТИХИ И КОММЕНТАРИИ» Вечер состоится в субботу, 7-го мая 1949 г., в 9 ч. веч. в зале «Академия» 314 West 91 St. (BAR. Nadejda Papers. Box 3. Invitation card). {108} Блестяще. Седьмое мая наиболее удобный день. Я думаю, что название должно быть проще: «Стихи и комментарии». Спасибо за все хлопоты, которые Вы взяли на себя по устройству подходящей даты. Ваш В. Набоков (англ.).

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Часть текста: Набоков В. В. - Зензинову В. М., 2 декабря 1952 г. НАБОКОВ — ЗЕНЗИНОВУ Mr. V. Zenzinov 294 Riverside Drive New York, N. Y. <Итака> December 2, 1952 {142} Dear Vladimir Mikhailovich. It has occurred to me that I might deliver a half-an-hour lecture on Alexandr Blok in the first part of my soiree, with a short story and a few poems to follow in the second. If this arrangement suits you, you might entitle the whole thing. {143} Vecher Vladimira Nabokova-Sirina. Pervaya chast' budet posvyashchena Slovu о Bloke, vtoraya sobstvennoy prose i stikham. {144} I embrace you, Vash V. Nabokov Please let me know the date selected as soon, as you know it yourself. {145} Примечания {142} Напечатано на машинке с латинским шрифтом. На конверте: «V. Nabokov. Goldwin Smith Hall. Cornell University. Ithaca, N. Y.» Почтовый штемпель: «Ithaca, N. Y. Nov 20 1952». {143} Декабрь 2, 1952 Дорогой Владимир Михайлович. Мне пришла мысль прочитать получасовую лекцию об Александре Блоке в первой части моего вечера, а затем последует короткий рассказ и несколько стихотворений во второй части. Если такая программа Вас устраивает, Вы можете придумать заглавие для всего мероприятия (англ.). {144} Вечер Владимира Набокова-Сирина. Первая часть будет посвящена Слову о Блоке, вторая — собственной прозе и стихам (транслитерация). Вечер Набокова, устройство которого обсуждается в письмах 49–50, состоялся 21 декабря 1952 г. в помещении Master Institute Hall 323 W 103 St. and Riverside Drive (см.: Новое русское слово. 1952. 20 декабря). Текст «Слова о Блоке» неизвестен. В ответ на просьбу Р. Н. Гринберга дать материал для первого номера «Опытов» В. Е. Набокова, по поручению мужа, писала 19 января 1953 г.: «…относительно „материала“. В<олодя> просит передать, что „Доклад о Блоке“ он решил не печатать, т. к., просмотрев его с точки зрения журнальной, пришел к выводу, что не меньше двух недель пришлось бы ухлопать на „облизывание“ этого, решительно устного доклада…» (Library of Congress (Washington). Manuscript division. Vozdushnye Puti. Box 2). {145} Я обнимаю Вас, Ваш В. Набоков Пожалуйста, сообщите мне дату, как только будете знать ее сами (англ.).

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