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Часть текста: фотографиями в бархатных рамках <...> висела копия с картины: Марко Поло покидает Венецию. Она была румяна, эта Венеция, а вода ее лагун — лазорева, с лебедями вдвое крупнее лодок, в одну из коих спускались по доске маленькие фиолетовые люди, чтобы сесть на корабль, ждущий поодаль со свернутыми парусами, — и я не могу отделаться от этой таинственной красоты, от этих древних красок, плывущих перед глазами как бы в поисках новых очертаний, когда теперь воображаю снаряжение отцовского каравана в Пржевальск <...>» (Набоков 1998, 282—283). Через несколько страниц мотив путешествия Марко Поло возникает снова: «В этой пустыне сохранились следы древней дороги, по которой за шесть веков до меня проходил Марко Поло: указатели ее, сложенные из камней <...> во время песчаных бурь <...> я видел и слышал то же, что Марко Поло: „шепот духов, отзывающих в сторону“». Этот абзац заканчивается так: «<...> когда великий землепроходец умирал, его друзья, собравшись у его ложа, умоляли его отказаться от того, что казалось им невероятным в его книге <...> он же ответствовал, что не поведал и половины виденного на самом деле» (Набоков 1998, 291). Последняя фраза приоткрывает роль, которую в романе играет образ итальянского путешественника: его опыт поддерживает писателя в намерении точно передать всё неправдоподобие подлинной реальности. Комментатор новейшего издания «Дара» установил, что слова о «шепоте духов» навеяны описанием путешествия Марко Поло, которое было издано в Петербурге в 1902 г. (см. Минаев 1902, 73; Набоков 1998, 565). Но об изображении, которое висело в кабинете старшего Годунова-Чердынцева, нигде нет никакой информации. В обширном томе «The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov» (Alexandrov 1995) имя венецианского землепроходца даже не...

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Часть текста: 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...

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Часть текста: на английском языке. Wisconsin Studies, 1967 г. Wisconsin Studies [1967] This interview (published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967) was conducted on September 25, 27, 28, 29, 1966, at Montreux, Switzerland. Mr. Nabokov and his wife have for the last six years lived in an opulent hotel built in 1835, which still retains its nineteenth-century atmosphere. Their suite of rooms is on the sixth floor, overlooking Lake Geneva, and the sounds of the lake are audible through the open doors of their small balcony. Since 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" ...

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Часть текста: leap into English. Yes, my forthcoming Poems and Problems [McGraw-Hill] will offer several examples of the verse of my early youth, 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...

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Часть текста: неопределенность, [Амброзио] в надежде отвлечься от нее, попытался присваивать себе мысли других». 7 обман — это не чарующий вымысел любимых романов Татьяны, а дешевая фальшь модных философствований и политического интриганства. 12—14 С коротенькой «профессиональной» репликой «в сторону» на сцену возвращается второй главный герой главы — Пушкин; он, а не Онегин критикует в этой строфе современную литературу; и с XLV до последней, LX строфы гл. 1, за исключением строф LI–LV (да и то в первых двух из них голос Пушкина вполне различим), поэт будет играть главную роль. Вариант 14 В черновой рукописи (2369, л. 17 об.) Пушкин колебался между «розовой» тафтой и «зеленой». XLV Условий света свергнув бремя, Как он, отстав от суеты, С ним подружился я в то время. 4 Мне нравились его черты, Мечтам невольная преданность, Неподражательная странность И резкий, охлажденный ум. 8 Я был озлоблен, он угрюм; Страстей игру мы знали оба; Томила жизнь обоих нас; В обоих сердца жар угас; 12 Обоих ожидала злоба Слепой Фортуны и людей На самом утре наших дней. В отдельном издании первой главы 1825 г. эта и следующая строфа шли в обратном ...

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Часть текста: на английском языке. Vogue, 1972 г. Vogue [1972] Simona Morini came to interview me on February 3, 1972, in Montreux. Our exchange appeared in Vogue, New York, April 15, 1972. Three passages (pp. 200-1, 201-2 and 204), are borrowed, with modifications, from Speak, Memory, G. P. Putnam's Sons, N. Y., 1966. The world has been and is open to you. With your Proustian sense of places, what is there in Montreux that attracts you so? My sense of places is Nabokovian rather than Proustian. With regard to Montreux there are many attractions-- nice people, near mountains, regular mails, headquarters at a comfortable hotel. We dwell in the older part of the Palace Hotel, in its original part really, which was all that existed a hundred and fifty years ago (you can still see that initial inn and our future windows in old prints of 1840 or so). Our quarters consist of several tiny rooms with two and a half bathrooms, the result of two apartments having been recently fused. The sequence is: kitchen, living-dining room, my wife's room, my room, a former kitchenette now full of my papers, and our son's former room, now converted into a study. The apartment is! cluttered with books, folders, and files. What might be termed rather grandly a library is a back room housing my published works, and there are additional shelves in the attic whose skylight is much frequented by pigeons and Alpine choughs. I am giving this meticulous description to refute a distortion in an interview published recently in another New York magazine-- a long piece with embarrassing misquotations, wrong intonations, and false exchanges in the course of which I am made to dismiss the scholarship of a dear friend as "pedantry" and to poke ambiguous fun at a manly writer's tragic fate. Is there any truth in the rumor that you are thinking of leaving Montreux forever? Well, there is a rumor that sooner or later everybody living...

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Часть текста: 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 Humbert met her. You may remember that by the time she is fourteen, he refers to her as his "aging mistress." One critic has said about you that "his feelings are like no one else's. " Does this make sense to you? Or does it mean that you know your feelings better than others know theirs? Or that you have discovered yourself at other levels? Or simply that your history is unique? I do not recall that article; but if a critic makes such a statement, it must surely mean that he has explored the feelings of literally millions of people, in at least three countries, before reaching his conclusion. If so, lama rare fowl indeed. If, on the other hand, he has merely limited himself to quizzing members of his family or club, his statement cannot be discussed seriously. Another critic has written that your "worlds are static. They may become tense with obsession, but they do not break apart like the worlds of everyday reality. " Do you agree? Is there a static quality in your view of things?...

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Часть текста: отношений искусства к действительности». Задача этой работы — анализ эстетической концепции романа Набокова, ее воплощения во вставных текстах (книгах героя), ее конкретных источников и общего смысла в контексте культуры 1930-х годов. Эстетическая концепция «Дара» полемически направлена против теории Чернышевского и против реалистической, или позитивистской, эстетики в целом. Согласно теории Чернышевского (в изложении Набокова), «искусство <…> есть замена, или приговор, но отнюдь не ровня жизни…» (266) [337] . В художественном мире романа Набокова литература и реальность приравниваются и взаимно обращаются. Такой операции подвергается и сам Чернышевский, герой книги Федора: «[Зина] настолько свыклась с его принадлежностью Федору и отчасти ей, что подлинная его жизнь в прошлом представлялась ей чем-то вроде плагиата» (230). Обращение литературы и реальности — процесс аналогичный и параллельный свободному обращению в романе прошлого и настоящего, России и Германии, реальности действительной и реальности воображаемой, «вещи» и «тени». Эстетический вопрос о соотношении литературы и реальности выступает как символическая модель метафизического вопроса о соотношении «этого мира» и «иного мира» [338] . Позиция Набокова — это позиция модерниста, с характерным для эпохи антипозитивистским и антиреалистическим пафосом. Однако эстетическая концепция, высказанная и воплощенная в романе, имеет и конкретный источник. Имеется в романе и...

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Часть текста: in my dread of arousing suspicion, I would eagerly pay for both sections of one double unit, each containing a double bed. I wondered what type of foursome this arrangement was even intended for, since only a pharisaic parody of privacy could be attained by means of the incomplete partition dividing the cabin or room into two communicating love nests. By and by, the very possibilities that such honest promiscuity suggested (two young couples merrily swapping mates or a child shamming sleep to earwitness primal sonorities) made me bolder, and every now and then I would take a bed-and-cot or twin-bed cabin, a prison cell or paradise, with yellow window shades pulled down to create a morning illusion of Venice and sunshine when actually it was Pennsylvania and rain. We came to know nous connmes, to use a Flaubertian intonationthe stone cottages under enormous Chateaubriandesque trees, the brick unit, the adobe unit, the stucco court, on what the Tour Book of the Automobile Association describes as “shaded” or “spacious” or “landscaped” grounds. The log kind, finished in knotty pine, reminded Lo, by its golden-brown glaze, of friend-chicken bones. We held in contempt the plain whitewashed clapboard Kabins, with their faint sewerish smell or...

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Часть текста: Набокова на английском языке. TV-13 NY, 1965 г. TV-13 NY [1965] In September, 1965, Robert Hughes visited me here to make a filmed interview for the Television 13 Educational Program in New York. At our initial meetings I read from prepared cards, and this part of the interview is given below. The rest, represented by some fifty pages typed from the tape, is too colloquial and rambling to suit the scheme of the present book. As with Gogol and even James Agйe, there is occasionally confusion about the pronunciation of your last name. How does one pronounce it correctly? It is indeed a tricky name. It is often misspelt, because the eye tends to regard the "a" of the first syllable as a misprint and then tries to restore the symmetrical sequence by triplicating the "o"-- filling up the row of circles, so to speak, as in a game of crosses and naughts. No-bow-cough. How ugly, how wrong. Every author whose name is fairly often mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher's or caterpillar-picker's knack when scanning an article. But in my case I always get caught by the word "nobody" when capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. As to pronunciation, Frenchmen...

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