Часть текста: fame of red heels and of majestic periwigs. VIII Who does not find it tedious to dissemble; diversely to repeat the same; try gravely to convince one 4 of what all have been long convinced; to hear the same objections, annihilate the prejudices which never had and hasn't 8 a little girl of thirteen years! Who will not grow weary of threats, entreaties, vows, feigned fear, notes running to six pages, 12 betrayals, gossiping, rings, tears, surveillances of aunts, of mothers, and the onerous friendship of husbands! IX Exactly thus my Eugene thought. In his first youth he had been victim of tempestuous errings 4 and of unbridled passions. Spoiled by a habitude of life, with one thing for a while enchanted, disenchanted with another, 8 irked slowly by desire, irked, too, by volatile success, hearkening in the hubbub and the hush to the eternal mutter of his soul, 12 smothering yawns with laughter: this was the way he killed eight years, having lost life's best bloom. X With belles no longer did he fall in love, but dangled after them just anyhow; when they refused, he solaced in a twinkle; 4 when they betrayed, was glad to rest. He sought them without rapture, while he left them without regret, hardly remembering their love and spite. 8 Exactly thus does an indifferent guest drive up for evening whist: sits down; then, when the game is over, he drives off from the...

2. Савельева В.В.: Художественная гипнология и онейропоэтика русских писателей. Приложение

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Часть текста: но в том, чтобы методами филологии анализировать то психологическое явление, которое описано литературным материалом» (“The purposes of such studies are not to use the psychological methods for the literary analysis, but to use the literary methods in order to analyze the psychological phenomenon, which is described in the literary text”) [20, с.9]. These studies are interdisciplinary, for they are situated on the boundaries of different academic fields, such as physiology, medicine, philosophy, psychology, literary and cultural studies, and semiotics. V.M.Kovalzon, The Doctor of Biology and a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, defines the process of sleeping as “...особое генетически детерминированное состояние организма человека и других теплокровных животных (т.е. млекопитающих и птиц), характеризующееся закономерной последовательной сменой определенных полиграфических картин в виде циклов, фаз и стадий» (“.a special, genetically determined state of the human body and the body of other warm-blooded animals (mammals and birds), which is characterized by the logical succession of certain multi-graphic pictures in the form of cycles, phases and stages” ) [6, с.311]. The...

3. Lolita. Part Two. Chapters 3 - 8

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Часть текста: 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 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...

4. Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Chapter eight

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Часть текста: I bloomed serenely, would eagerly read Apuleius, 4 did not read Cicero; in those days, in mysterious valleys, in springtime, to the calls of swans, near waters shining in the stillness, 8 the Muse began to visit me. My student cell was all at once radiant with light: in it the Muse opened a banquet of young fancies, 12 sang childish gaieties, and glory of our ancientry, and the heart's tremulous dreams. II And with a smile the world received her; the first success provided us with wings; the aged Derzhavin noticed us — and blessed us 4 as he descended to the grave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . ....

5. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 9 - 11

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Часть текста: whenever I had nothing better to do. On the other hand, I was urged by a war-time university in New York to complete my comparative 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 Johnsonwho was soon flown back, I am glad to say. I had little notion of what object the expedition was pursuing. Judging by the number of...

6. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 1 - 8

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Часть текста: 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 her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had...

7. Под знаком незаконнорожденных. Глава 7

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Часть текста: деревянным басом отвечает Портрет с титула Первого фолио). Заметьте также подпись: "Ink, a drug". Чей-то досужий карандаш (Эмбер весьма ценил эту ученую шутку) занумеровал буквы так, что получилось "Grudinka", - это означает "бекон" в некоторых славянских языках. Номер второй показывает того же увальня (теперь приодетого джентльменом), стягивающего с головы самого джентльмена (он теперь сидит за столом и пишет) некое подобие шапски. Понизу той же рукой написано: "Ham-let, или Homelette au Lard". Наконец, на номере третьем - дорога, пеший путник (в украденной шапске) и указатель "В Хай-Уиком". Имя его подобно Протею. В каждом углу он плодит двойников. Почерку его бессознательно подражают законники, которым выпала доля писать той же рукой. В сырое утро 27 ноября 1582го года он - Шакспир, она - Уотли из Темпл-Графтон. Два дня спустя, он - Шагспир, она же - Хатуэй из Стратфорда-на-Авоне. Так кто же он? Вильям Икс, прехитро составленный из двух левых рук и личины. Кто еще? Человек, сказавший (не первым), что слава Господня в том, чтобы скрыть, а человечья - сыскать. Впрочем, то, что уорикширский парень писал пьесы, более чем удовлетворительно доказывается мощью сморщенных яблок и бледного первоцвета. Здесь две темы: шекспировская, исполняемая в настоящем времени Эмбером, чинно принимающим гостя в своей спальне; и совершенно иная - сложная смесь прошлого, настоящего и будущего - тема, которой ужасное отсутствие Ольги причиняет страшные затруднения. Это была, это есть их первая встреча со времени ее смерти. Круг не заговорит о ней, даже не спросит о прахе; и Эмбер, который тоже стесняется смерти, не знает, что сказать. Имей он возможность свободно передвигаться, он мог бы молча обнять своего толстого друга (жалкое поражение для философа и поэта, привыкших верить, что слово превыше дела), но как это сделать,...

8. Найман Эрик: Извращения в «Пнине» (Набоков наоборот). Глава 4

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Часть текста: его к совершению какого-нибудь дурацкого промаха». Слово «preposterous» (дурацкий, нелепый, бессмысленный, абсурдный) своим значением обязано инверсии: оно произошло от латинского praeposterus, что означает «противоположный, обратный» или «извращенный», и изначальное его значение в английском языке — «перевернутый, поставленный в обратном порядке». В елизаветинской драме это слово употреблялось в непристойном смысле и относилось к анальному сексу [666] (Henke, 202) — например, у Шекспира в «Троиле и Крессиде» [667], — и эту коннотацию можно распространить на главный (для повествователя) источник анекдотов о Пнине — Джека Кокерелла, «а rather limp, moon-faced, neutrally blond Englishman» — «довольно вялого, луноликого, невыразительного <тут игра слов: можно прочесть и как „бесполого“. — Э. Н.> и белесого англичанина». В русской литературе о «лунной» гомосексуальности писал Василий Розанов, и Набоков ранее уже пользовался этой коннотацией [668]. В метатворческом смысле «дурацкий промах» («preposterous oversight») совершает повествователь, который до крайности, до абсурда извращает историю Пнина. И все же слова «preposterous oversight» (которые могут означать и «обратный пересмотр») описывают не только болтовню Кокерелла; речь еще и о долге хорошего читателя: «подлинное понимание» «Пнина» — и любого другого романа Набокова — требует восприятия начала книги уже на основе знаний, обретенных в ее конце, то есть в...

9. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 18 - 22

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Часть текста: 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 ...

10. Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Chapter five

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Часть текста: silver, gay magpies outside, 12 and the hills softly overspread with winter's brilliant carpeting. All's bright, all's white around. II Winter! The peasant, celebrating, in a flat sledge inaugurates the track; his naggy, having sensed the snow, 4 shambles at something like a trot. Plowing up fluffy furrows, a bold kibitka flies: the driver sits upon his box 8 in sheepskin coat, red-sashed. Here runs about a household lad, upon a hand sled having seated “blackie,” having transformed himself into the steed; 12 the scamp already has frozen a finger. He finds it both painful and funny — while his mother, from the window, threatens him... III But, maybe, pictures of this kind will not attract you; all this is lowly nature; 4 there is not much refinement here. Warmed by the god of inspiration, another poet in luxurious language for us has painted the first snow 8 and all the shades of winter's delectations. 27 He'll captivate you, I am sure of it, when he depicts in flaming...

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