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Часть текста: guidelines for writing, reading, and performing plays. The reader is urged to bear in mind, however, that, later in life, Father might have expressed certain thoughts differently. The lectures were partly in typescript and partly in manuscript, replete with Nabokov's corrections, additions, deletions, occasional slips of the pen, and references to previous and subsequent installments of the course. I have limited myself to what editing seemed necessary for the presentation of the lectures in essay form. If Nabokov had been alive, he might perhaps have performed more radical surgery. He might also have added that the gruesome throes of realistic suicide he finds unacceptable onstage (in "The Tragedy of Tragedy") are now everyday fare on kiddies' TV, while "adult" entertainment has long since outdone all the goriness of the Grand Guignol. He might have observed that the aberrations of theatrical method wherein the illusion of a barrier between stage and audience is shattered - a phenomenon he considered "freakish" - are now commonplace: actors wander and mix; the audience is invited to participate; it is then applauded by the players in a curious reversal of roles made chic by Soviet performers ordered to emulate the mise-en-sce´ne of party congresses; and the term "happening" has already managed to grow obsolescent. He might have commented that the quest for originality for its own sake has led to ludicrous excesses and things have taken their helter-skelter course in random theatre as they have in random music and in random painting. Yet Nabokov's own plays demonstrate that it is possible to respect the rules of drama and still be original, just as one can write original poetry without neglecting the basic requirements of prosody, or play brilliant tennis, to paraphrase T. S. Eliot, without taking...

2. Бабиков А.: "Событие" и самое главное в драматической концепции В. В. Набокова

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Часть текста: годах, не предназначались для постановки; специально для театра Набоков написал «Человека из СССР», драму в пяти действиях, [2] и после ее единственного представления в 1926 году к драматургии не обращался вплоть до 1937 года. Успех Набокова как драматурга связан с постановкой в «Русском театре» его «драматической комедии» «Событие» (далее — Соб ). [3] Ко времени переезда Набокова из Германии во Францию в 1937 году театральными центрами русской эмиграции в Париже были «Театр Русской Драмы» (организованный Н. Н. Евреиновым, Е. Н. Рощиной-Инсаровой и Ю. П. Анненковым) и «Русский Драматический Театр в Париже» (основатель Н. Ф. Балиев). [4] В 1936-м в Париже был создан «Русский театр», для которого И. Фондаминский, входивший в состав «Общества друзей русского драматического искусства» (наряду с М. Алдановым, И. Буниным и председателем Общества А. Коноваловым) и активно поддерживавший новое начинание, предложил Набокову сочинить пьесу. [5] Шумный успех постановки Соб «Русским театром» вызвал целый ряд откликов и оценок, из которых самым последовательным и глубоким был разбор пьесы в сопоставлении с «Ревизором», проведенный В. Ходасевичем, утверждавшим, что Соб «можно рассматривать как вариант к „Ревизору“». [6] Однако некоторые драматургические...

3. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Wisconsin Studies, 1967 г.

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Часть текста: Mr. Nabokov does not like to talk off the cuff (or "Off the Nabocuff," as he said) no tape recorder was used. Mr. Nabokov ei! ther wrote out his answers to the questions or dictated them to the interviewer; in some instances, notes from the conversation were later recast as formal questions-and-answers. The interviewer was Nabokov's student at Cornell University in 1954, and the references are to Literature 311-312 (MWF, 12), a course on the Masterpieces of European Fiction (Jane Austen, Gogol, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Stevenson, Kafka, Joyce, and Proust). Its enrollment had reached four hundred by the time of Nabokov's resignation in 1959. The footnotes to the interview, except where indicated, are provided by the interviewer, Alfred Appel, Jr. For years bibliographers and literary journalists didn't know whether to group you under "Russian" or "American. "Now that you're living in Switzerland there seems to be complete agreement that you're American. Do you find this kind of distinction at all important regarding your identity as a writer? I have always maintained, even as a schoolboy in Russia, that the nationality of a worthwhile writer is of secondary importance. The more distinctive an insect's aspect, the less apt the taxonomist is to glance first of all at the locality label under the pinned specimen in order to decide which of several vaguely described races it should be assigned to. The writer's art is his real passport. His identity should be immediately recognized by a special pattern or unique coloration. His habitat may confirm the correctness of the determination but should not lead to it....

4. Набоков Дмитрий: Отцовские бабочки. Интервью данное Брайеном Бойдом журналу BOMB Magazine

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Часть текста: New Zealand. An unlikely plot, but the real story is no less exceptional: Brian Boyd, author of the prize-winning two-volume biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, and of Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness and the just-released Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery, is a scholar who changed his mind. Writing in The New York Observer on Boyd's 'remarkable, obsessive, delirious, devotional study, Nabokov's Pale Fire,' Ron Rosenbaum called him 'an ornament of the accidents and possibilities of Nabokov scholarship' and praised him 'for having the courage and humility to retract an earlier conjecture and the imaginative daring' to (as Boyd himself might put it) re-re-reread Pale Fire. Nabokov's 1962 novel takes the form of an introduction by a scholar named Charles Kinbote; a lucid 999-line poem by an American poet named John Shade; and a commentary and index by Kinbote, whose attention veers continually from the poem to his own unsatisfactory life, from John Shade's homely metaphysics and painful...

5. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 1 - 8

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Часть текста: 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 mother’s elder sister, Sybil, whom a cousin of my father’s had married and then neglected, served in my immediate family as a kind of unpaid governess and housekeeper. Somebody told me later that she had been in love with my father, and that he had lightheartedly taken advantage of it one rainy day and forgotten it by the time the weather cleared. I was extremely fond of her, despite the rigiditythe fatal rigidityof some of her rules. Perhaps she wanted to make of me, in the fullness of time, a better widower than my father. Aunt Sybil had pink-rimmed azure eyes and a waxen complexion. She wrote poetry. She was...

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Часть текста: всем требованиям современного коммерческого театра драматург по своей природе далек от искусства; в том же направлении мыслей Набоков полагал, к примеру, что Достоевский по натуре был несостоявшимся драматургом . Те короткие стихотворные драмы, которые Набоков публиковал в начале 20‑х годов («Скитальцы», «Смерть», «Полюс» и др.), относились к жанру пьес для чтения (Lesedrama) и не предназначались для постановки; большая «Трагедия господина Морна» (1924) вопреки его надеждам не только не была поставлена, но и не была издана при его жизни. Дебют Набокова‑драматурга состоялся в 1927 году, когда Юрий Офросимов поставил в Берлине его драму из эмигрантской жизни «Человек из СССР» [150], и после ее единственного представления Набоков к драматургии не обращался десять лет. Неожиданный успех Сирина‑драматурга связан с постановкой «Русским театром» в Париже «драматической комедии» «Событие» (1937), за которой вскоре последовала технически самая совершенная его драма «Изобретение Вальса», не попавшая на подмостки из‑за начавшейся войны [151]. Неожиданность успеха «События», разумеется, мнимая. Освоенные Набоковым в тридцатых годах художественные приемы и методы не только предопределили его зрелую драматургию, обусловили и оправдали ее, но, в свою очередь, и...

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

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Часть текста: 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...

8. Мейер Присцилла. "Бледный огонь" Владимира Набокова. 9. Метафизика: Ultima Thule

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Часть текста: на казнь (107) [334] Наименование Ultima Thule с древнейших времен обозначало умопостигаемую крайнюю северную точку земного шара. В «Бледном огне» путешествия и геофафические открытия служат метафорой стремления к знанию вообще — в области науки, культуры или метафизики. В творчестве Набокова Ultima Thule означает границу познаваемого мира, место, где начинается мир иной. Этот иной мир — неисследованная территория, Новая Земля (Nova Zembla в латинском и земблянском языках). В представлении Набокова, вечное, бессмертное существование до и после смерти есть истинная реальность, тогда как земная жизнь — лишь бледное ее отражение [335] . Эта идея лежит в основе системы метафор, характерной для всего корпуса текстов писателя. Повествователь «Дара» говорит о «театре земной привычки» (530); метафора жизни как пьесы внутри пьесы неоднократно возникает в творчестве Набокова. Земная жизнь может быть уподоблена театральной пьесе в том смысле, что обе — лишь иллюзии реальности. Мы заточены в мире и лишены возможности видеть потусторонность, поэтому жизнь и соответственно язык, который мы используем для ее описания, могут быть названы метафорической тюрьмой. Представления Набокова близки к идеям русских символистов: формы этого мира — лишь неясные подобия их идеальных соответствий в мире ином. Искусство — средство выразить то немногое, что доступно нашему пониманию [336] . Художник ближе других подходит к осознанию вечности и воплощает свое знание в образах искусства [337] . Для указания на потусторонность Набоков использует устойчивый круг образов, среди которых — отдаленная дымка, синий цвет (особенно лазурь и кобальт), оттенки лилового, горы. Исследование потусторонности для Набокова имеет исключительно важное значение: именно там он надеется...

9. Александров В. Е.: Набоков и потусторонность. Литература

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Часть текста: Jr. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Appendix One: Abram Gannibal. // Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin. Revised edition. Translated with a commentary by Vladimir Nabokov. Four volumes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Vol. 3. P. 387–447. The Circle // Nabokov F. A Russian Beauty and Other Stories. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. P. 253–268. Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir. New York: Harper and Row, 1951. The Creative Writer // Bulletin of the New England Modern Language Association. 1942. 4. N 1. P. 21–29. Foreword // Nabokov V. Despair. New York: Putnam's, 1965. P. 7–10. Lectures on Don Quixote / Ed. by Fredson Bowers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark, 1983. Lectures on Literature / Ed. by Fredson Bowers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark, 1980. Lectures on Russian Literature / Ed. by Fredson Bowers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark, 1981. Lolita: A Screenplay. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. The Nabokov — Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabоkov and Edmund Wilson, 1940–1971 / Ed., annotated, and introduced by Simon Karlinsky. New York: Harper and Row, 1979. Poems and Problems. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Prof. Woodbridge in an Essay on Nature Postulates the Reality of the World // New York Sun, 1940, 15, 10 December. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. New York: Putnam's, 1966. Strong Opinions. New York:...

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

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Часть текста: 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...

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