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Часть текста: the American publication of Lolita, you've published twenty-two or so books-- new American or Antiterran novels, old Russian works in English, Lolita in Russian-- giving one the impression that, as someone has said-- John Updike, I think-- your oeuvre is growing at both ends. Now that your first novel has appeared (Mashenka, 1926), it seems appropriate that, as we sail into the future, even earlier works should adhere to this elegant formula and make their quantum leap into English. Yes, my forthcoming Poems and Problems [McGraw-Hill] will offer several examples of the verse of my early youth, including "The Rain Has Flown," which was composed in the park of our country place, Vyra, in May 1917, the last spring my family was to live there. This "new" volume consists of three sections: a selection of thirty-six Russian poems, presented in the original and in translation; fourteen poems which I wrote directly in English, after 1940 and my arrival in America (all of which were published in The New Yorker), and eighteen chess problems, all but two of which were composed in recent years (the chess manuscripts of the 1940-1960 period have been mislaid and the earlier unpublished jottings are not worth printing). These Russian poems constitute no more than one percent of the mass of verse which I exuded with monstrous regularity during my youth. Do the components of that monstrous mass fall into any discernible periods or stages of development? What can be called rather grandly my European period of verse-making seems to show several distinctive stages: an initial one of passionate and commonplace love verse (not represented in Poems and Problems)-, a period reflecting utter distrust of the...
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Часть текста: обманывать, упразднять и отрицать его в своем творчестве, — внезапно стало ускорять свой ход. Вера уже потеряла счет многочисленным изданиям книг Владимира; она не смогла ответить на вопрос Лазара, существует ли издание «Отчаяния» в мягкой обложке. Спустя два дня после Рождества 1971 года она отправила Эндрю Филду свои поправки к создаваемой им биографии: «Прошу прощения за разрозненные куски. Не могу Вам передать, как часто мне приходится отвлекаться по разным поводам в своей работе, мой письменный стол буквально завален неотвеченными или полуотвеченными письмами и т. д. и т. д.». Все праздники для Веры превратились теперь в праздники водителя автобуса. Слава Богу, замечал Дмитрий, «чистые развлечения ее не слишком волновали». Трудолюбивый Гольденвейзер с завистью отзывался о ее «феноменальной работоспособности». Набоков утверждал, что карандаши у него долговечней ластиков, а Вера жаловалась, что ее коротенькие, исписанные до самых наконечников карандашики выскальзывают из пальцев под грузом новых вставляемых ластиков. Случалось, в основном из-за Анны Фейгиной, что Набоковы порознь выезжали из Монтрё, сначала отправлялся Владимир, а следом Вера, обеспечив кузину всем необходимым. В начале апреля 1970 года, как раз...
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Часть текста: or do they serve yet another purpose? Deception is practiced even more beautifully by that other V. N., Visible Nature. A useful purpose is assigned by science to animal mimicry, protective patterns and shapes, yet their refinement transcends the crude purpose of mere survival. In art, an individual style is essentially as futile and as organic as a fata morgana. The sleight-of-hand you mention is hardly more than an insect's sleight-of-wing. A wit might say that it protects me from half-wits. A grateful spectator is content to applaud the grace with which the masked performer melts into Nature's background. In your autobiography. Speak, Memory, you describe a series of concurrent, insignificant events around the world "forming an instantaneous and transparent organism of events, " of which the poet (sitting in a lawn chair at lthaca. New York) is the nucleus. How does this open out on your larger belief in the precedence of the imagination over the mind? The simultaneousness of these random events, and indeed the fact of their occurring at all as described by the central percipient, would only then conform to "reality" if he had at his disposal the apparatus to reproduce those events optically within the frame of one screen; but the central figure in the passage you quote is not equipped with any kind of video attached to his lawn chair and must therefore rely on the power of pure imagination. Incidentally, I tend more and more to regard the objective existence of all events as a form of impure imagination-- hence my inverted commas around "reality." Whatever the mind grasps, it does so with the assistance of creative fancy, that drop of water on a glass slide which gives distinctness and relief...