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Часть текста: presented here have been selected to accompany Nabokov's plays because they embody, in concentrated form, many of his principal 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;...

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Часть текста: Набокова, изданные на английском языке: The Annotated Lolita / Edited, with a preface, introduction, and notes by Alfred Appel, 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: McGraw-Hill, 1973. The Tragedy of Tragedy // Nabokov V. The Man From the U. S. S. R. and Other Plays / Ed. by Dmitri Nabokov. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark, 1984. P. 323–432. II Abrams M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 3d ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart...

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Часть текста: Трагедия господина Морна. Пьесы. Лекции о драме) Примечания (к книге Трагедия господина Морна. Пьесы. Лекции о драме) Драматургия В. В. Набокова (1899—1977), за исключением сценария по «Лолите», целиком принадлежит «русскому» периоду его творчества. Сохранилась первая, всего в 61 строку, драма Набокова «Весной» («нечто лирическое в одном действии»), которая была написана в 1918 г. в Крыму (Б01. С. 172). За двадцатилетие с 1923 по 1942 г. Набоков опубликовал в периодических изданиях Берлина, Парижа и Нью-Йорка шесть пьес, драматический монолог, первое действие драмы «Человек из СССР» и заключительную сцену к пушкинской «Русалке». При жизни Набокова пьесы не переиздавались. Самое крупное произведение, «Трагедия господина Морна», а также полный текст «Человека из СССР» (в английском переводе) увидели свет только после смерти автора. Набоков издал в США лишь одну свою пьесу — «Изобретение Вальса», переведенную на английский язык сыном писателя Д. В. Набоковым в 1964 г....

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Часть текста: высказываний о Пушкине и Гоголе, он не признавал ничьего влияния и всегда протестовал, когда над его головой поднимали знамена с чужими именами. {218} Такая установка была частью его общественного лица. Но в частной переписке маска спадает. Я имею в виду одно письмо (1949 года) Эдмунду Уилсону, в котором Набоков возражает против явно некомпетентного высказывания своего адресата, будто после 1905 года русская литература вступила в полосу упадка. «Упадок русской литературы периодов 1905–1917 годов, — пишет он, — есть советская выдумка. Блок, Белый, Бунин, да и другие пишут лучшие свои вещи. И никогда — даже во времена Пушкина — не была поэзия так популярна. Я рожден этой эпохой, я вырос в этой атмосфере» (курсив мой. — В. А. ). {219} Это весьма Красноречивое высказывание, из него явствует, что своей колыбелью Набоков считал так называемый русский Серебряный век. {220} Но что Именно в этом многоцветном феномене было Набокову особенно близко? Знаменательно, конечно, то, что Набоков называет двух символистов — Блока и Белого. Но ведь в свой краткий перечень он включает и Бунина, которого, как правило, (и весьма приблизительно) именуют «реалистом» (известно, что Набоков ценил его стихи выше, чем прозу). {221} Неназванными остались «другие», принадлежащие, возможно, иным школам, но не менее важные для него. Памятуя о презрении, которое Набоков испытывал к любым обобщениям, к «измам» особенно, я все-таки рискнул бы предположить, что на русской литературной сцене 1905–1917 годов наиболее близки Набокову, и теоретически, и художественно, были символизм и акмеизм, причем первый, пожалуй, был несколько ближе. ...

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Часть текста: champion, Dolly played singles at least twice a week: I suspect Linda was a true nymphet, but for some unknown reason she did not comewas perhaps not allowed to cometo our house; so I recall her only as a flash of natural sunshine on an indoor court. Of the rest, none had any claims to nymphetry except Eva Rosen. Avis ws a plump lateral child with hairy legs, while Mona, though handsome in a coarse sensual way and only a year older than my aging mistress, had obviously long ceased to be a nymphet, if she ever had been one. Eva Rosen, a displaced little person from France, was on the other hand a good example of a not strikingly beautiful child revealing to the perspicacious amateur some of the basic elements of nymphet charm, such as a perfect pubescent figure and lingering eyes and high cheekbones. Her glossy copper hair had Lolita’s silkiness, and the features of her delicate milky-white face with pink lips and silverfish eyelashes were less foxy than those of her likesthe great clan of intra-racial redheads; nor did she sport their green uniform but wore, as I remember her, a lot of black or cherry darka very smart black pullover, for instance, and high-heeled black shoes, and garnet-red fingernail polish. I spoke French to her (much to Lo’s disgust). The child’s tonalities were still admirably pure, but for school words and play words she resorted to current American and then a slight Brooklyn accent would crop up in her speech, which was amusing in a little Parisian who went to a select New England school with phoney British aspirations. Unfortunately,...

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Часть текста: identical detectives in prismatically changing cars were figments of my persecution mania, recurrent images based on coincidence and chance resemblance. Soyons logiques , crowed the cocky Gallic part of my brainand proceeded to rout the notion of a Lolita-maddened salesman or comedy gangster, with stooges, persecuting me, and hoaxing me, and otherwise taking riotous advantage of my strange relations with the law. I remember humming my panic away. I remember evolving even an explanation of the “Birdsley” telephone call… But if I could dismiss Trapp, as I had dismissed my convulsions on the lawn at Champion, I could do nothing with the anguish of knowing Lolita to be so tantalizingly, so miserably unattainable and beloved on the very even of a new era, when my alembics told me she should stop being a nymphet, stop torturing me. An additional, abominable, and perfectly gratuitous worry was lovingly prepared for me in Elphinstone. Lo had been dull and silent during the last laptwo hundred mountainous miles uncontaminated by smoke-gray...

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Часть текста: 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 the initial little Miss Lee. Well, comrade, let me tell you that I did look for a beach, though I also have to confess that by the time we reached its mirage of gray water, so many delights had already been granted me by my traveling companion that the search for a Kingdom by the Sea, a Sublimated Riviera, or whatnot, far from being the impulse of the subconscious, had become the rational pursuit of a ...

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Часть текста: (mouth open, in a kind of dull amazement at the curiously inane life we all had rigged up for her) and satisfied myself that the precious contents of the “luizetta” were safe. There, snugly wrapped in a white woolen scarf, lay a pocket automatic: caliber. 32, capacity of magazine 8 cartridges, length a little under one ninth of Lolita’s length, stock checked walnut, finish full blued. I had inherited it from the late Harold Haze, with a 1938 catalog which cheerily said in part: “Particularly well adapted for use in the home and car as well as on the person.” There it lay, ready for instant service on the person or persons, loaded and fully cocked with the slide lock in safety position, thus precluding any accidental discharge. We must remember that a pistol is the Freudian symbol of the Ur-father’s central forelimb. I was now glad I had it with meand even more glad that I had learned to use it two years before, in the pine forest around my and Charlotte’s glass lake. Farlow, with whom I had roamed those remote woods, was an admirable marksman, and with his. 38 actually managed to hit a hummingbird, though I must say not much of it could be retrieved for proofonly a little iridescent fluff. A burley ex-policeman called Krestovski, who in the twenties had shot and killed two escaped convicts, joined us and bagged a tiny woodpeckercompletely out of season, incidentally. Between those two...

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Часть текста: Приглашение на казнь «Правда ли, что Вы написали пьесу?» В конце тридцатых годов прошлого века в Париже неожиданно заставил говорить о себе драматург Владимир Сирин. Известный писатель Сирин, автор «Защиты Лужина», «Отчаяния», «Приглашения на казнь», на несколько месяцев уступил свое место в критических обзорах русских газет и журналов автору «драматической комедии» «Событие». К тому времени никто уже не помнил десятилетней давности дебют Сирина-драматурга на сцене русского театра в Берлине, вследствие чего «Событие» было названо первым драматургическим опытом писателя. «Правда ли, что Вы написали пьесу? — с некоторым удивлением спрашивал Владислав Ходасевич Набокова в январе 1938 года. — Приедете ли, как подобает драматургу, на премьеру? Будете ли выходить на вызовы? Влюбитесь ли в исполнительницу главной роли? Я, впрочем, все равно решил идти на первый спектакль — из любви к Вам и назло человечеству, так как на пьесы Алданова и Тэффи идти отказался» {1}. Много лет спустя, в 1966 году, знаменитый американский писатель Набоков, автор «Лолиты» и «Бледного огня», вновь...

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Часть текста: 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 important piece in the game. Luzhin, the eponymous hero, is our king: He remembered especially the time when he was quite small, playing all alone, and wrapping himself up in the tiger rug, to represent, rather forlornly, a king (p. 70, 4). (Indeed. A young and pretty princelet, I too played at being king. Note the tiger rug, which will reappear later as a "belaia medvezh'ia shkura, raskinuv lapy, slovno letia v blestiashchuiu propast' pola" (p. 68, 8) ["a white bearskin...

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