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Часть текста: is dedicated to me on the occasion of my seventieth birthday. I soon realized, however, that I might find myself discussing critical studies of my fiction, something I have always avoided doing. True, a festschrift is a very special and rare occasion for that kind of sport, but I did not wish to create even the shadow of a precedent and therefore decided simply to publish the rough jottings I made as an objective reader anxious to eliminate slight factual errors of which such a marvelous gift must be free; for I knew what pains the editors, Charles Newman and Alfred Appel, had taken to prepare it and remembered how firmly the guest co-editor, when collecting the ingredients of this great feast, refused to show me any plum or crumb before publication. BUTTERFLIES Butterflies are among the most thoughtful and touching contributions to this volume. The old-fashioned engraving of a Catagramma- like insect is delightfully reproduced twelve times so as to suggest a double series or "block" of specimens in a cabinet case; and there is a beautiful photograph of a Red Admirable (but "Nymphalidae" is the family to which it belongs, not its genus, which is Vanessa-- my first bit of carping). ALFRED APPEL, JR. Mr. Appel, guest co-editor, writes about my two main works of fiction. His essay "Backgrounds of Lolita" is a superb example of the rare case where art and erudition meet in a shining ridge of specific information (the highest and to me most acceptable function of literary criticism). I would have liked to say more about his findings but modesty (a virtue that the average reviewer especially appreciates in authors) denies me that pleasure. His other piece in this precious collection is "Ada Described." I planted three blunders, meant to ridicule mistranslations of Russian classics, in the first paragraph of my Ada: the opening sentence of Anna Karenin (no additional "a," printer, she was not a...

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Часть текста: 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 whom by now Dr. Humbert has plunged, I trust, into a state of leporine fascinationis no doubt anxious to have me take Lolita to the seaside and have me find there, at last, the “gratification” of a lifetime urge, and release from the “subconscious” obsession of an incomplete childhood romance with the initial little Miss Lee. Well, comrade, let me tell you that I did look for a beach, though I also have to confess that by the time we reached its mirage of gray water, so many delights had already been granted me by my traveling companion that the search for a Kingdom by the Sea, a Sublimated Riviera, or whatnot, far from being the impulse of the subconscious, had become the rational pursuit of a purely theoretical thrill. The angels knew it, and arranged things accordingly. A visit to a plausible cove on the Atlantic side was completely messed up by foul weather. A thick damp sky, muddy waves, a sense of boundless but somehow matter-of-fact mistwhat could be further removed from the crisp charm, the sapphire occasion and rosy contingency of my Riviera romance? A couple of semitropical...

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Часть текста: 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 “shaded” or “spacious” or “landscaped” grounds. The log kind, finished in knotty pine, reminded Lo, by its golden-brown glaze, of friend-chicken bones. We held in contempt the plain whitewashed clapboard Kabins, with their faint sewerish smell or some other gloomy self-conscious stench and nothing to boast of (except “good beds”), and an unsmiling landlady always prepared to have her gift (“…well, I could give you…”) turned down. Nous connmes (this is royal fun) the would-be...

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Часть текста: no way out. Are you still exploring, and is it inevitably a solitary excursion, from which one returns to the solace of others? I'm a very poor speaker. I hope our audience won't mind my using notes. My exploration of time's prison as described in the first chapter of Speak, Memory was only a stylistic device meant to introduce my subject. Memory often presents a life broken into episodes, more or less perfectly recalled. Do you see any themes working through from one episode to another? Everyone can sort out convenient patterns of related themes in the past development of his life. Here again I had to provide pegs and echoes when furnishing my reception halls. Is the strongest tie between men this common captivity in time? Let us not generalize. The common captivity in time is felt differently by different people, and some people may not feel it at all. Generalizations are full of loopholes and traps. I know elderly men for whom "time" only means "timepiece." What distinguishes us from animals? Being aware of being aware of being. In other words, if I not only know that I am but also know that I know it, then I belong to the human species. All...

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Часть текста: 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 behind them so close as almost to touch them with my person), she turned to Eva, and so very serenely and seriously, in answer to something the other had said about its being better to die than hear Milton Pinski, some local schoolboy she knew, talk about music, my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling’s mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile clichs, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gatedim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions; for I often noticed that...

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Часть текста: 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 unforgettable acting and directing. The killing of Quilty is a masterpiece, and so is the death of Mrs. Haze. I must point out, though, that I had nothing to do with...

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Часть текста: Гринбергу цитируются по изданию: Рашит Янгиров “Друзья, бабочки и монстры: из переписки Владимира и Веры Набоковых с Романом Гринбергом. 1943-1967” // Диаспора: новые материалы. Альманах. 2001, №1. Париж, Atheneum - Спб., Феникс. 5 Pitzer, с. 173-174. Первый французский концлагерь для евреев, Дранси, появился в 1941 г. Рейс, которым уехали Набоковы, стал для “Шамплена” последним: по возвращении во Францию пароход подорвался на мине и затонул на рейде. 6 Bakh, письмо Веры Гольденвейзер, 26 июля 1941 г. 7 DBDV, c.52. 8 Даже в романе “Дар”, повествующем о трудной жизни эмигранта во враждебном немецком городе, слышны отголоски восхищения Набокова горами. Всякий раз, как заходит речь о радости, которую испытывает первооткрыватель, герой представляет себе покойного отца, исследователя Средней Азии, в горах, которые, кстати, несильно отличались от гор северной и центральной части штата Юта: тот же гранит и талые воды. Словно предвидя то, что ему только предстояло пережить в Америке, Набоков писал (в 1938 г.; первое американское издание “Дара” вышло в 1963 г.) о “настоящих крымских редкостях”, которые водились “гораздо выше, в горах, между скал”, о днях, проведенных в горах и пустынях, о “постоянном чувстве, что наши здешние дни только карманные деньги, гроши, звякающие в темноте, а что где-то есть капитал, с коего надо уметь при жизни получать проценты в виде снов, слез счастья, далеких гор”. В. Набоков, “Дар”. 9 NB, с. 52-53. 10 В. Набоков, “Под знаком незаконнорожденных”. Здесь и далее книга цитируется в переводе С. Ильина. Набоков озаглавил вымышленную книгу “Когда стоит сирень” (When Lilacs Last) в вымышленной рецензии, написанной для “Убедительного доказательства”, но так и не вошедшей в книгу. SL, с. 105. 11 В. Набоков, “Память, говори”. Здесь и далее книга цитируется в...

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Часть текста: русских писателей Глава шестая. Преследование темы: О композиции сновидений в творчестве В.Набокова Глава шестая. Преследование темы: О композиции сновидений в творчестве В.Набокова ...как всякий сон, бесконечно свободный и сложный, но сворачивающийся как кровь, по пробуждении... В.Набоков «Дар» 6.1. Аналитика сновидении в прозе В.Набокова В название этой главы вынесен образный термин «преследование темы», который часто используется музыкантами и шахматистами и означает «метод составления серии родственных по замыслу задач». Свою идею они стремятся представить в нескольких видах: «с максимальным числом вариантов, с различными тематическими фигурами, в разных жанрах». «Несомненно, что анализ достаточного количества «преследующих» определенную тему произведений одного и того же автора позволяет получить наглядное представление о его разносторонности, технике составления, творческих установках и достижениях» [1, 167]. Композиции сновидений в творчестве В.Набокова можно сопоставить с шахматными этюдами, но, естественно, что конструктивное воплощение, художественный материал и цели жанра сновидения иные. Все сновидные этюды в творчестве писателя обладают чертами сходства и представляют собой неожиданное поведения фигур (образов) яви в ограниченных пространственно-временных рамках сновидения. Сюжет этих сновидений, как правило, имеет неожиданный конец и представляет собой отложенную по неожиданным обстоятельствам партию. Набоков-художник был внимательным читателем чужих снов в художественной литературе. Так, его комментарий к подстрочному английскому переводу пушкинского романа в стихах включает и подробное разъяснение образов и ситуаций сна Татьяны [2, 403-411]. Предисловие к изданию английского перевода романа М.Лермонтова «Герой нашего времени» начинается с анализа стихотворения «Сон» («В полдневный жар в долине Дагестана...»), которое, по мнению В.Набокова, «можно было бы назвать «Тройной сон»: «Это Сон 3 внутри Сна 2 внутри Сна 1, который, сделав замкнутую...

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Часть текста: mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher's or caterpillar-picker's knack when scanning an article. But in my case I always get caught by the word "nobody" when capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. As to pronunciation, Frenchmen of course say Nabokoff, with the accent on the last syllable. Englishmen say Nabokov, accent on the first, and Italians say Nabokov, accent in the middle, as Russians also do. Na- bo -kov. A heavy open "o" as in "Knickerbocker". My New England ear is not offended by the long elegant middle "o" of Nabokov as delivered in American academies. The awful "Na-bah-kov" is a despicable gutterism. Well, you can make your choice now. Incidentallv, the first name is pronounced Vladeemer-- rhyming with "redeemer"-- not Vladimir rhyming with Faddimere (a place in England, I think). How about the name of your extraordinary creature. Professor P-N-I-N? The "p" is sounded, that's all. But since the "p" is mute in English words starting w-ith "pn", one is prone to insert a supporting "uh" sound-- "Puh-- nin"-- which is wrong. To get the "pn" right, try the combination "Up North", or still better "Up, Nina!", leaving out the initial "u". Pnorth, Pnina, Pmn. Can you do that? . . . That's fine. You 're responsible for brilliant summaries of the lives and works of Pushkin and Gogol. How would you summarize your own? It is not so easy to summarize something which is not quite finished yet. However, as I've pointed outelsewhere, the first part of my life is marked by a rather pleasing chronological neatness. I spent my first twenty years in Russia, the next twenty in...

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Часть текста: 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: http: //www.bibliotekar.ru/index. files/2/39.htm 8. Арлекин [Электронный ресурс]. — Режим доступа: http: //www.dpholding.ru/dosie/?action=photo amp;id=304 9. Баевский В. С. Лингвистические, математические, семиотические и компьютерные модели в истории и теории литературы. — Mосква: Языки славянской культуры, 2001. — 336 с. 10. Барабтарло Г. Предисловие переводчика // Набоков В. Истинная жизнь Севастьяна Найта: Роман / пер. с англ. Г. Барабтарло. — Санкт-Петербург: Азбука: Азбука-Аттикус, 2011. — С. 8–16. 11. Бауло А. В. Арлекин, остяцкий идол [Электронный ресурс]. — Режим доступа: http: //www.rgo-sib.ru/science/26.htm 12. Бахтин М. М. Проблема автора // Бахтин М. М. Автор и герой: К философским основам гуманитарных наук. — Санкт-Петербург: Азбука, 2000. — С. 206–226. 13. Бахтин М. М. Проблема текста в лингвистике, филологии и других гуманитарных науках // Бахтин М. М. Эстетика словесного творчества. — Москва: Искусство, 1979. — С. 281–307. 14. Бахтин М. М. Творчество Франсуа Рабле и народная культура средневековья и Ренессанса [Электронный ресурс]. — Режим доступа: http: //5ballov.qip.ru/referats/preview/38964/9/?kniga-bahtin-m-m-tvorchestvo-fransua-rable-i-narodnaya-kultura-srednev ekovya-i-renessansa 15. Библер В. С. Замыслы: В 2 кн. Кн. 1. — Москва: Российск. гос. гуманит. ун-т, 2002. — 879 ...

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