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Часть текста: go alone), I happened to glimpse from the bathroom, through a chance combination of mirror aslant and door ajar, a look on her face… that look I cannot exactly describe… an expression of helplessness so perfect that it seemed to grade into one of rather comfortable inanity just because this was the very limit of injustice and frustrationand every limit presupposes something beyond ithence the neutral illumination. And when you bear in mind that these were the raised eyebrows and parted lips of a child, you may better appreciate what depths of calculated carnality, what reflected despair, restrained me from falling at her dear feet and dissolving in human tears, and sacrificing my jealousy to whatever pleasure Lolita might hope to derive from mixing with dirty and dangerous children in an outside world that was real to her. And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. Once, in a sunset-ending street of Beardsley, she turned to little Eva Rosen (I was taking both nymphets to a concert and walking...

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Часть текста: blossoms securing her finger-tip veil, nor does she carry a white orchid in a prayer book. The bride’s little daughter might have added to the ceremonies uniting H. and H. a touch of vivid vermeil; but I knew I would not dare be too tender with cornered Lolita yet, and therefore agreed it was not worth while tearing the child away from her beloved Camp Q. My soi-disant passionate and lonely Charlotte was in everyday life matter-of-fact and gregarious. Moreover, I discovered that although she could not control her heart or her cries, she was a woman of principle. Immediately after she had become more or less my mistress (despite the stimulants, her “nervous, eager chri a heroic chri ! had some initial trouble, for which, however, he amply compensated her by a fantastic display of old-world endearments), good Charlotte interviewed me about my relations with God. I could have answered that on that score my mind was open; I said, insteadpaying my tribute to a pious platitudethat I believed in a cosmic spirit. Looking down at her fingernails, she also asked me had I not in my family a certain strange strain. I countered by inquiring whether she would still want to marry me if my father’s maternal grandfather had been, say, a Turk. She said it did not matter a bit; but that, if she ever found out I did not believe in Our Christian God, she would commit suicide. She said it so...

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Часть текста: ago, when the Soviets were hypocritically denouncing Pasternak's novel (with the object of increasing foreign sales, the results of which they would eventually pocket and spend on propaganda abroad); when the badgered and bewildered author was promoted by the American press to the rank of an iconic figure; and when his Zhivago vied with my Lalage for the top rungs of the best-seller's ladder; I had the occasion to answer a request for a review of the book from Robert Bingham of The Reporter, New York. And you refused? Oh, I did, The other day I found in my files a draft of that answer, dated at Goldwin Smith Hall, lthaca, N. Y., November 8, 1958. I told Bingham that there were several reasons preventing me from freely expressing my opinion in print. The obvious one was the fear of harming the author. Although I never had much influence as a critic, I could well imagine a pack of writers emulating my "eccentric" outspokenness and causing, in the long run, sales to drop, thus thwarting the Bolshevists in their hopes and making their hostage more vulnerable than ever. There were other reasons-- but I certainly left out of consideration one point that might have made me change my mind and write that devastating review after all-- the exhilarating prospect of seeing it attributed to competitive chagrin by some ass or goose. Did you tell Robert Bingham what you thought of Dr. Zhivago? What I told him is what I still think today. Any intelligent Russian would see at once that the book is pro-Bolshevist and historically false, if only because it ignores the Liberal Revolution of spring, 1917, while making the saintly doctor accept with delirious joy the Bolshevist coup d'etat seven months later-- all of which is in keeping with the party line....

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Часть текста: 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...

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Часть текста: 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 shared now and then (never very successfully) the favors of one of our nutritionists, a Dr. Anita...

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Часть текста: Подернув плечами, Ада повернулась к Вану. Прикосновение ее холодных пальцев и влажной ладони и еще та неловкость, с которой она откинула назад волосы, когда они направились по центральной аллее парка, вызвали неловкость и в нем самом, и Ван, сделав вид, будто хочет подобрать еловую шишку, высвободил руку. Он запустил шишкой в мраморную женщину, склоненную над сосудом, но не попал, а лишь спугнул птицу, примостившуюся на краю горлышка разбитого кувшина. — Беспримерная пошлость, — сказала Ада, — кидаться камнями в дубоноса! — Прошу прощения, — возразил Ван, — я вовсе не метил в птичку. И потом, я ведь не сельский житель, где мне отличить шишку от камешка! Аи fond [49] во что она предложила бы нам играть? — Je l'ignore! [50] — отвечала Ада. — Мне совершенно неинтересно мнение этой жалкой особы. В cache-cache [51] , наверное, или по деревьям лазать. — Отлично, уж в этом-то я мастер, — сказал Ван. — Я даже могу, повиснув, перебираться...

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Часть текста: 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 forelimb. I was now glad I had it ...

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Часть текста: невозможное (в английском языке) женское. “Маунт-Фавор” и “Понтий-Пресс” содержат намек на “преображения” (если не ошибаюсь, термин принадлежит Дж. Стейнеру) и извращения, которым претенциозные и невежественные переводчики подвергают великие тексты. С.5 Сђверныя Территорiи – сохранена старая русская орфография. С.5 гранобластически – т.е. в тессеральном (мусийном) смешении. С.5 Тофана – намек на “аква тофана” (см. в любом хорошем словаре). С.5 ветвисторогатый – с рогами в полном развитьи, т.е. с концевыми развилками. С.6 озеро Китеж – аллюзия на баснословный град Китеж, сияющий в русской сказке с озерного дна. С.6 господин Элиот – мы вновь повстречаем его на страницах 213 и 233 в обществе автора “Плотных людей” и “Строкагонии”. С.6 контрфогговый – Филеас Фогг, кругосветный путешественник у Жюля Верна, двигавшийся с запада на восток. С.6 “Ночные проказники” – их имена взяты (с искажениями) из детского франкоязычного комикса. С.7 доктор Лапинэ – по какой-то неясной, но определенно несимпатичной причине большая часть врачей носит в этой книге фамилии, связанные с зайцами. Французскому lapin в “Лапинэ” соответствует русский “Кролик” – любимый лепидоптерист Ады (С.7 и далее), а русский “заяц” звучит наподобие немецкого Seitz (немец-гинеколог на c.105); еще имеется латинский cuniculus в фамилии “Никулин” (внук выдающегося знатока грызунов Куникулинова, c.200) и греческий lagos в фамилии “Лягосс” (доктор, навещающий одряхлевшего Вана). Отметим также Кониглиетто – итальянского специалиста по раку крови, c.175. С.7...

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Часть текста: 17, 1968, Martin Esslin came to see me at my hotel in Montreux with the object of conducting an interview for The New York Times Book Review. The following letter awaited him downstairs. "Welcome! I have devoted a lot of pleasurable time to answering in writing the questions sent to me by your London office. I have done so in a concise, stylish, printable form. Could I please ask you to have my answers appear in The New York Times Book Review the way they are prepared here? (Except that you may want to interrupt the longer answers by several 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 ...

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Часть текста: Порою вовсе не заметит; Кокетства в ней ни капли нет — 8 Его не терпит высший свет. Бледнеть Онегин начинает: Ей иль не видно, иль не жаль; Онегин сохнет, и едва ль 12 Уж не чахоткою страдает. Все шлют Онегина к врачам, Те хором шлют его к водам. 8 Пушкин был человеком умным и тем не менее использовал это жалкое добропорядочное назидание, чтобы повлиять на свою невесту, которая, прочти она Пушкина, могла бы отказаться от претенциозной манеры «московской барышни». XXXII А он не едет; он заране Писать ко прадедам готов О скорой встрече; а Татьяне 4 И дела нет (их пол таков); А он упрям, отстать не хочет, Еще надеется, хлопочет; Смелей здорового, больной 8 Княгине слабою рукой Он пишет страстное посланье. Хоть толку мало вообще Он в письмах видел не вотще; 12 Но, знать, сердечное страданье Уже пришло ему невмочь. Вот вам письмо его точь-в-точь. 7 В тексте в конце этой строки нет знака препинания, но, несомненно, это или ошибка переписчика, или типографская опечатка. 14 …точь-в-точь. — Следует ли понимать, что «точь-в-точь» относится не к точности перевода, но подразумевает верно снятую копию (хотя это может означать и то, и другое) и...

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