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Часть текста: 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of which were composed in recent years (the chess manuscripts of the 1940-1960 period have been mislaid and the earlier unpublished jottings are not worth printing).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 so-called October Revolution; a period (reaching well into the nineteen-twenties) of a kind of private curatorship, aimed at preserving nostalgic retrospections and developing Byzantine imagery (this has been mistaken by some readers for an interest in "religion" which, beyond literary stylization, never meant anything to me); a period lasting another decade or so during which I set myself to illustrate the principle of making a short poem contain a plot and tell a story (this in a way expressed my impatience with the dreary drone of the anйmie "Paris School" of emigre poetry); ...

2. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The Sunday Times, 1969 г.

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Часть текста: for example, they may be split, with insertion of the questioner's comments or bits of descriptive matter (but none of the latter material may be ascribed to me). Unprepared remarks, quips, etc., may come from me during the actual colloquy but may nut be published without my approval. The article will be shown to me before publication so as to avoid factual errors {e. g., in names, dates, etc.). Mr. Oakes' article appeared in The Sunday Times on June 22, 1969. As a distinguished entomologist and novelist do you find that your two main preoccupations condition, restrict, or refine your view of the world? What world? Whose world? If we mean the average world of the average newspaper reader in Liverpool, Livorno, or Vilno, then we are dealing in trivial generalities. If, on the other hand, an artist invents his own world, as I think I do, then how can he be said to influence his own understanding of what he has created himself? As soon as we start defining such terms as "the writer," "the world," "the novel," and so on, we slip into a solipsismal abyss where general ideas dissolve. As to butterflies-- well, my taxonomic papers on...

3. Nabokov: from lepidopterology to "Lolita"

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Часть текста: lepidopterology to "Lolita" Nabokov: from lepidopterology to 'Lolita' By Steve Connor 30 March 2000 Nabokov's Butterflies: unpublished and uncollected writings by Vladimir Nabokov; edited by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle (Allen Lane, £25) There are many instances of professional zoologists being excellent authors - from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins - but few examples of great novelists doubling up as proficient zoologists. Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita , Russian émigré intellectual and expert lepidopterist, is the "type specimen" of a renowned novelist with a creditable reputation as an insect taxonomist. In butterfly circles, Nabokov was a monarch. Butterflies and literature were Nabokov's twin passions. He started in 1906, aged seven, when he caught his first specimen on his family estate. A few years later, Nabokov was precocious enough to think he had found a new species, only to have his dreams dashed. Undaunted, he set out on a life of butterfly hunting, interspersed with equally passionate forays into fiction. Nabokov not only realised his dream of finding a new species; he had several named after him. He became an authority on the taxonomy of a family known as the...

4. Йожа Д. З.: Мифологические подтексты романа "Король, дама, валет"

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Часть текста: подтексты романа "Король, дама, валет" Мифологические подтексты романа «Король, дама, валет» В набоковском романе, опубликованном в 1928 году, любовный треугольник явно выходит на первый план, однако его характер совсем иной, чем в романе «Машенька», так как объект влечения «главного героя» не невинная молодая девушка, обитающая в лабиринте памяти, а супруга его дяди. Как в романе «Камера обскура», «Лолита» и др., именно любовный треугольник выполняет сюжетообразующую функцию; кажется, автор одержим этой идеей. Особая роль, выполняемая в романе «тетей», налицо в «Защите Лужина», где тетя способствует развитию в еще маленьком Лужине смертоносной страсти к шахматам, на которую можно смотреть как на патологическую или роковую. Согласно теории В. Александрова, шахматы связаны с моментом епифании космического рода. [1] Классические традиции в построении романа о прелюбодеянии Набоков строго соблюдает. Как у многих других мастеров этого жанра, в частности, — у Толстого в «Анне Карениной», развязка включает смерть главной героини. [2] В соответствии с идеями Толстого, телесная любовь ведет к катастрофе. Толстовские реминисценции как в «Камере обскура», [3] так и в «Короле, даме, валете» читатель найдет в изобилии. Любовь здесь — губительная, страсть — преимущественно телесная. Она разрушительна и для Марты, и для Франца, и для Драйера. Мотив транспорта, как и в других произведениях Набокова, занимает ...

5. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The New York Times Book Review, 1968 г.

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Часть текста: 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 literary parties in Berlin, I, being asked where I would like to live, answered, "In a large comfortable hotel." That is exactly what my wife and I are doing now. About every...

6. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Anonymous, 1972 г.

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Часть текста: may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object." A number of such instances of falling through the present's "tension film" are given in the course of the book. There is the personal history of a pencil. There is also, in a later chapter, the past of a shabby room, where, instead of focusing on Person and the prostitute, the spectral observer drifts down into the middle of the previous century and sees a Russian traveler, a minor Dostoevski, occupying that room, between Swiss gambling house and Italy. Another critic has said- Yes, I am coming to that. Reviewers of my little book made the lighthearted mistake of assuming that seeing through things is the professional function of a novelist. Actually, that kind of generalization is not only a dismal commonplace but is specifically untrue. Unlike the mysterious observer or observers in Transparent Things, a novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. So who is that observer; who are those italicized "we" in the fourteenth line of the novel; who, for goodness' sake, is the "I" in its very first line? The solution, my friend, is so simple that one is almost embarrassed to furnish it. But here goes. An incidental but curiously active component of my novel is Mr. R ., an American writer of German extraction. He writes English more correctly than he speaks it. In conversation R. has an annoying habit of introducing here and there the automatic "you know" of the German emigre, and, more painfully yet, of misusing, garbling, or padding the commonest American cliche. A good specimen is his intrusive, though well meant, admonition in the last line of my last chapter: "Easy, you know, does it,...

7. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The Paris Review, 1967 г.

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Часть текста: of the questions were submitted by Herbert Gold, during a visit to Montreux in September, 1966. The rest (asterisked) were mailed to me by George A. Plimpton. The combined set appeared in The Paris Review of October, 1967. Good morning. Let me ask forty-odd questions. Good morning. I am ready. Your sense of the immorality of the relationship between Humbert Humbert and Lolita is very strong. In Hollywood and New York, however, relationships are frequent between men of forty and girls very little older than Lolita. They marry-- to no particular public outrage; rather, public cooing. No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or elsewhere. And, anyway, cases of men in their forties marrying girls in their teens or early twenties have no bearing on Lolita whatever. Humbert was fond of "little girls"-- not simply "young girls." Nymphets are girl-children, not starlets and "sex kittens." Lolita was twelve, not eighteen, when...

8. Коннолли Дж. В.: "Король, дама, валет"

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Часть текста: Набоков опубликовался в первом выпуске журнала «Числа», Георгий Иванов так далеко зашел в своих грубых нападках, что заявил, будто «Король, дама, валет» был дотошно скопирован с посредственных немецких образцов. [2] Возможно, реакцией на подобные замечания стало утверждение Набокова, высказанное в предисловии к английскому переводу романа: «По-немецки я не говорил, немецких друзей у меня не было, и я не прочитал к тому времени ни единого немецкого романа ни в подлиннике, ни в переводе». [3] Набоков заявил, что мог бы избрать местом действия этого произведения Румынию или Голландию с тем же успехом, что и Берлин, но его знакомство с «топографией и погодой» [4] Берлина определило выбор. Хотя это утверждение можно во многом считать верным, определенные авторские изменения, сделанные для английского перевода, как представляется, продиктованы особым интересом к менталитету и истории немецкого народа — интересом, возникшим вследствие ужаса перед опустошением, принесенным годами нацистского правления. И все же главное различие между первым и вторым романом Набокова связано не с национальностью центральных персонажей, а с тем, как относится к ним автор. Многие критики отмечали сходство героев с картами, перечисленными в заглавии романа. Глеб Струве и Альфред Аппель называют их «персонажами карточного стола», [5] в то время как другие критики указывают на то, что отношение Набокова к главным героям подчеркивает их сходство с различными...

9. Карпов Н.А.: Романтические контексты Набокова. Избранная библиография

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Часть текста: рецензии. м., 1989. Nabokov V. Invitation to a Beheading. New York, 1989. Nabokov V. Strong Opinions. New York, 1973. Nabokov V. The Defense. New York, 1990. Общие работы Абрамова В. И. Мотив «невыразимого» в русской романтической картине мира: от В. А. Жуковского к К. К. Случевскому: дис. ... канд. филол. наук. м., 2007. Александров А. В. Русский романтический рассказ. Одесса, 2000. 144 с. Альбеткова Р. И. Фантастические образы в русском романтизме 30-х годов XIX века // Из истории русского романтизма: сб. статей. Вып. 1. Кемерово, 1971. С. 86-101. Асмус В. Ф. Музыкальная эстетика философского романтизма // Сов. Музыка. 1934. № 1. С. 51-61. Бахтин М. М. Проблемы поэтики Достоевского. М., 1972. 470 с. Берковский Н.Я. Романтизм в Германии. Л., 1973. 568 с. Берновская Н. М. образ чудака и проблема духовной утопии в истории немецкой литературы от Жан-Поля до Германа Гессе // вопросы литературы и стилистики германских языков. М., 1975. С. 27-76. Благой Д. Д. Литература и действительность. М., 1959. 516 с. Бухштаб Б. Я. Русские поэты. Л., 1970. 248 с. Ванслов В. В. Эстетика романтизма. М., 1966. 402 с. Васильев С. Ф. Русская романтическая проза: поэтика фантастического // Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 35 (1995). S. 5-17. Вацуро В. Э. Последняя повесть Лермонтова // М. Ю. Лермонтов. Исследования и материалы. Л., 1979. с. 223-252. Гальцева Р А., Роднянская И. Б. Помеха — человек: Опыт века в зеркале антиутопий // Новый мир. 1988. № 12. С. 217-230. Гаспаров М. Л. Литературный интертекст и...

10. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 23 - 27

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Часть текста: running with a rustle, a half-empty tumbler in her hand, back to the screened porchwhere the propped-up, imprisoned, decrepit lady herself may be imagined screeching, but not loud enough to drown the rhythmical yaps of the Junk setter walking from group to groupfrom a bunch of neighbors already collected on the sidewalk, near the bit of checked stuff, and back to the car which he had finally run to earth, and then to another group on the lawn, consisting of Leslie, two policemen and a sturdy man with tortoise shell glasses. At this point, I should explain that the prompt appearance of the patrolmen, hardly more than a minute after the accident, was due to their having been ticketing the illegally parked cars in a cross lane two blocks down the grade; that the fellow with the glasses was Frederick Beale, Jr., driver of the Packard; that his 79-year-old father, whom the nurse had just watered on the green bank where he laya banked banker so to speakwas not in a dead faint, but was comfortably and methodically recovering from a mild heart attack or its possibility; and, finally, that the laprobe on the sidewalk (where she had so often pointed out to me with disapproval the crooked green cracks) concealed the mangled remains of Charlotte Humbert who had been knocked down and dragged several feet by the Beale car as she was hurrying across the street to drop three letters in the mailbox, at the corner of Miss Opposite’s lawn. These were picked up and handed to me by a pretty child in a dirty pink frock, and I got rid of them by clawing them to fragments in my trouser pocket. Three doctors and the Farlows presently arrived on the scene and took over. The widower, a man of exceptional self-control, neither wept nor raved. He staggered a bit, that he did; but he opened his mouth only to impart such...

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