Часть текста: omitted chapter by means of dots or a numeral; but to avoid ambiguity he decided it would be better to mark as number eight, instead of nine, the last chapter of Eugene Onegin, and to sacrifice one of its closing stanzas [Eight: XLVIIIa]: 'Tis time: the pen for peace is asking nine cantos I have written; my boat upon the joyful shore 4 by the ninth billow is brought out. Praise be to you, O nine Camenae, etc. “P[avel] A[leksandrovich] Katenin (whom a fine poetic talent does not prevent from being also a subtle critic) observed to us that this exclusion, though perhaps advantageous to readers, is, however, detrimental to the plan of the entire work since, through this, the transition from Tatiana the provincial miss to Tatiana the grande dame becomes too unexpected and unexplained: an observation revealing the experienced artist. The author himself felt the justice of this but decided to leave out the chapter for reasons important to...

2. Набоков Дмитрий: Отцовские бабочки. Отцовские бабочки. Father's Butterflies (английский язык)

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Часть текста: 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 -...

3. Чарльз Кинбот: Серебристый свет. Подлинная жизнь Владимира Набокова. Chapter Nine. Zashchita Luzhina

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Часть текста: "Remember, dear, that the greatest menace to happy domestic life is CHESS." -- Shakhmatnaia goriachka 1 Zashchita Luzhina [literally, Luzhin's Defense] was written in 1929 while the Master and his wife were vacationing and hunting butterflies in the Pyren?es Orientales and published serially, first in Rul' (one chapter), then in Sovremennye zapiski , nos. 40-42, and finally in book form later that same year by Slovo in Berlin. An English version, translated by the author in collaboration with Michael Scammell, was published in 1964 by Putnam as The Defenestration . This edition is true to the original with the exception of two references to Zembla that the author, or the translator, or an unnamed editor, or an inattentive typesetter, chose to remove, or happened to remove inadvertantly, from Chapters Two and Five. Zashchita Luzhina is a book about chess, "a game of skill played by two persons, each having sixteen pieces to move in different ways, on a board divided into 64 squares, alternately light and dark." (I owe this pithy definition to Webster.) If the reader does not know, or has forgotten, the rules to the game, he or she is invited to consult one of the many pamphlets devoted to chess that must surely exist in every language written and read in the civilized world. The word chess derives from Middle English ches or chesse , thence from Old French eschec (francophones will hear here an echo of the French word for failure, a not irrelevant observation for the case under discussion), or echac ,2 thence from Persian shah , a king, the most...

4. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 1 - 8

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Часть текста: Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. 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 set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges. My ...

5. Под знаком незаконнорожденных. Глава 7

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6. Lolita. Part Two. Chapters 3 - 8

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Часть текста: now that she was ready to turn away from it with something akin to plain repulsion. Never did she vibrate under my touch, and a strident “what d’you think you are doing?” was all I got for my pains. To the wonderland I had to offer, my fool preferred the corniest movies, the most cloying 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...

7. Роупер Р: Набоков в Америке. По дороге к «Лолите». Глава 14

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Часть текста: выходит за стык стен). С бревен сдирали кору и покрывали лаком, щели заделывали известковым раствором и обшивали вагонкой. Corral Log Motel, Афтон, штат Вайоминг. Фото автора. В горах неподалеку от Афтона берут начало несколько ручьев и текут на запад. Набоков шел вверх по течению ручья и ловил бабочек в прибрежных кустах. “В начале августа, - писал он в статье, - лужи на тропинках в лесном заповеднике Бриджер облепляют миллионы N. californica Boisd., садятся стайками по четыре и более сотни и пьют воду, а по каньону ровным потоком носится бесчисленное количество бабочек” . В ту пору Набоков уже три года работал над “Лолитой”. В основном это были приготовления, то, что он сам называл “пальпировать в уме” 4 , разнообразные заметки. Во время весеннего семестра в Гарварде в 1952 году он, вероятно, принялся за черновик 5 , но летом практически ничего не писал . Летом Набоков обычно чувствовал себя хорошо и наслаждался жизнью. Вообще же годы, отданные работе над книгой, отрицательно сказались на его здоровье: печальная эпопея с зубами, межреберная невралгия, которая снова начала его мучить в 1950 году. Набоков рассказывал Уилсону: Почти две недели я пролежал в больнице. Вою и корчусь в муках с конца марта, когда грипп, который я подцепил на довольно скандальной, хотя и организованной из самых лучших побуждений вечеринке [журнала New Yorker], вызвал чудовищную межреберную невралгию, вследствие чего, страдая от непереносимой, непрекращающейся боли и столь же непереносимого страха, вызванного мнимыми болями в сердце и почках, я очутился в руках докторов... Я и сейчас еще не совсем здоров, сегодня у меня случился небольшой рецидив; я пока в постели, дома . Дома он, по крайней мере, мог спокойно писать и ему никто не мешал. Вера подменяла его на лекциях, а прочие досадные обязанности на время отпадали . Учеба Дмитрия в Гарварде продвигалась нелучшим образом: первый семестр “начался бурно” 9 , по словам Набокова, - однако...

8. Вне Лолиты: Вновь открывая Набокова. (Проект CNN, 1999 г.). The Writer

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Часть текста: 1962 movie version of "Lolita," directed by Stanley Kubrick. In short, he was obsessed with words and was not intimidated by genre. He spent his working life trying to capture the perfect style and structure on the page, in the same way he netted a butterfly that fluttered in his path. Nabokov, known as VN, first gained acclaim in Berlin, writing in his native Russian language and developing a following with fellow émigrés. In 1923, shortly after his graduation from Cambridge, Nabokov was busy with work - he published four plays (including "Death" and "The Grandfather") and two books of poetry ("The Empyrean Path" and "The Cluster"). His first book, "Mary," was published in 1926. The story details a young émigré's longing for the love he left behind in Russia, the battle between what is memory and what is real, and the inevitable disappointment of facing both. The book received little initial attention. Nabokov working on "The Defense" at a hotel in Le Boulou, East Pyrenees, February 1929 That's not to say Nabokov was an unknown. He continued to write, publishing the novels "King, Queen, Knave" (1928), "The Defense" (1930), and "Glory" (1932) and the 1929 short story collection "The Return of Chorb," Nabokov developed a Russian and French reader base that recognized his budding genius. "In the...

9. Чарльз Кинбот: Серебристый свет. Подлинная жизнь Владимира Набокова. Chapter Three. Mashen'ka

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Часть текста: to beginning a talk on Nijinsky by stepping from behind the lectern to attempt a jeté or two. While much, indeed too much, has been written about Nabokov's English novels, much less has been said about his earliest Russian fiction. It is to this I must now turn. My editor has chided me for diverging too frequently and too widely from my subject--but what is a life if not a series of diversions from some hidden, ineffable theme? Mashen'ka opens with the tongue-twisting name and patronymic of the protagonist Ganin, Lev Glebovich, which, complains the character Alferov, "iazyk vyzvikhnut' mozhno" (7). Instantly we are made aware of the potential treachery of words. With Alferov's statement a few paragraphs later that "vsiakoe imia obiazyvaet," we are also reminded of their power. The first stylistic glimmer of the mature Nabokov, which comes after the brief dialogue between Ganin and Alferov of which chapter one wholly consists, is the sequence "i bubliki, i brilliantin i prosto brillianty" (17-18) a harbinger of such later alliterative lists as "the brook and the boughs and the beauty of the Beyond" 1 and "glacial drifts, drumlins, and gremlins, and kremlins." 2 In the sentence "Tak meshalis' v nem chustvo chesti i chustvo zhalosti, otumanivaia tvorcheskie podvigi, na vsiakii trud, i prinimaiushchagosia za etot trud zhadno, s okhotoi, s radostnym namereniem vse odolet' i vsego dostich'," (33) we are struck by the phrase's musicality and especially by the aptness of the final "dostich'"--chosen in preference to the alternative perfective form of dostigat' , dostignut' (lined out in the fair copy), which would not have scanned. From ...

10. Комментарий к роману "Евгений Онегин". Глава четвертая. Пункты XXIV - XXXVIII

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Часть текста: гаснет и молчит! Ничто ее не занимает, 4 Ее души не шевелит. Качая важно головою, Соседи шепчут меж собою: Пора, пора бы замуж ей!.. 8 Но полно. Надо мне скорей Развеселить воображенье Картиной счастливой любви. Невольно, милые мои, 12 Меня стесняет сожаленье; Простите мне: я так люблю Татьяну милую мою! 2 …гаснет. .. — Галлицизм, se consume. 11 …милые мои… — Поэт обращается к своим друзьям и читателям. 14 Татьяну милую мою! — Создатель Татьяны теперь забудет о ней на двадцать восемь строф (исключая упоминание о грядущих именинах в гл. 4, XLIX), то есть до гл. 5, IV, где начинается тема гадания — сна — именин, заканчивающаяся в гл. 6, III. С точки зрения художественного бремени это значит, что Татьяна страдает и вянет по крайней мере полгода — длится агония, прерываемая посещением пустынного замка Онегина в седьмой главе, после чего мы вместе с Татьяной отправляемся в Москву. Варианты Пушкин набросал несколько версий строфы XXIV. XXIVa В тетради 2370, л. 52 об. есть отвергнутый черновик: Родня качает головою, Соседи шепчут меж собою: Пора, пора бы замуж ей! 8 Мать также мыслит — у друзей Тихонько требует совета — Друзья советуют зимой В Москву подняться всей семьей — 12 Авось ...

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