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Часть текста: arrived in America in May of 1940; except for some brief guest appearances, this was Father's first lecturing engagement at an American university. The Stanford course also included a discussion of some American plays, a survey of Soviet theatre, and an analysis of commentary on drama by several American critics. The two lectures presented here have been selected to accompany Nabokov's plays because they embody, in concentrated form, many of his principal guidelines for writing, reading, and performing plays. The reader is urged to bear in mind, however, that, later in life, Father might have expressed certain thoughts differently. The lectures were partly in typescript and partly in manuscript, replete 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...
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Часть текста: the fauna of Europe, including Russia, was compelled to scrabble for his crumbs of information in entomological journals in six languages and in multivolume, hard-to-find editions such as the Oberthьr books or those of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich. The absence or utter inadequacy of "references" in the atlases ad usum Delphini, the tedious perusal of the index 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 some museum, does not satisfy the true enthusiast, who needs to have the boon always at hand), had no choice but to hope for a miracle. And that miracle ...
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Часть текста: в Севастополь в 72-м году, она пешком исходила окрестные села для ознакомления с бытом крестьян: была она в своем периоде рахметовщины, – спала на соломе, питалась молоком да кашей… – Летом 1872 года Софья Перовская занималась прививкой оспы в селах Ставропольского уезда Самарской губернии. Спутав Поволжье с Крымом, Годунов-Чердынцев в остальном следует за ее биографом. Ср.: «Пешком исходила все окрестные села и деревни <… > Ночевала она в первой попавшейся избе, ела ту же грубую крестьянскую пищу, ничем не брезгая. Спала на полу на подушке, сделанной из соломы. И вообще, по наблюдениям знавших Перовскую, она в этот период была вся охвачена „рахметовщиной“» (Ашешов 1920: 31). 4–463 Похороны прошли тихо. Откликов в газетах было немного. – Подглавку «Отклики на смерть Чернышевского» Стеклов начинает словами: «Этих откликов было не очень-то много» (Стеклов 1928: II, 646). 4–464 На панихиде по нем в Петербурге приведенные для парада друзьями покойного несколько рабочих в партикулярном платье...