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Часть текста: light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. 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...

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Часть текста: [1962] In mid-July, 1962, Peter Duval-Smith and Christopher Burstall came for a BBC television interview to Zermatt where I happened to be collecting that summer. The lepidoptera lived up to the occasion, so did the weather. My visitors and their crew had never paid much attention to those insects and I was touched and flattered by the childish wonderment with which they viewed the crowds of butterflies imbibing moisture on brookside mud at various spots of the mountain trail. Pictures were taken of the swarms that arose at my passage, and other hours of the day were devoted to the reproduction of the interview proper. It eventually appeared on the Bookstand program and was published in The Listener (November 22, 1962). I have mislaid the cards on which I had written my answers. I suspect that the published text was taken straight from the tape for it teems with inaccuracies. These I have tried to weed out ten years later but was forced to strike out a few sentences here and there when memory refused to restore the sense flawed by defective or improperly mended speech. The poem I quote (with metrical accents added) will be found translated into English in Chapter Two of The Gift, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1963. Would you ever go back to Russia? I will never go back, for the simple reason that all the Russia I need is always with me: literature, language, and my own Russian childhood. I will never return. I will never surrender. And anyway, the grotesque shadow of a police state will not be dispelled in my lifetime. I don't think they know my works there-- oh, perhaps a number of readers exist there in my special secret service, but let us not forget that Russia ...

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Часть текста: time applied to events, which we measure by means of clocks and calendars; but those types of time are inevitably tainted by our notion of space, spatial succession, stretches and sections of space. When we speak of the "passage of time," we visualize an abstract river flowing through a generalized landscape. Applied time, measurable illusions of time, are useful for the purposes of historians or physicists, they do not interest me, and they did not interest my creature Van Veen in Part Four of my Ada. He and I in that book attempt to examine the essence of Time, not its lapse. Van mentions the possibility of being "an amateur of Time, an epicure of duration," of being able to delight sensually in the texture of time, "in its stuff and spread, in the fall of its folds, in the very impalpability of its grayish gauze, in the coolness of its continuum." He also is aware that "Time is a fluid medium for the culture of metaphors." Time, though akin to rhythm, is not simply rhythm, which would imply motion-- and Time does not move. Van's greatest discovery is his perception of Time as the dim hollow between two rhythmic beats, the narrow and bottomless silence between the beats, not the beats themselves, which only embar Time. In this sense human life is not a pulsating heart but the missed heartbeat. PERSONAL PAST Pure Time, Perceptual Time, Tangible Time, Time free of content and context, this, then, is the kind of Time described by my creature under my sympathetic direction. The Past is also part of the tissue, part of the present, but it looks somewhat out of focus. The Past is a constant accumulation of images, but our brain is not an ideal organ for constant retrospection and the best we can do is to pick out and try to retain those patches of rainbow light flitting through memory. The act of retention is the act of art, artistic selection, artistic...

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Часть текста: 8 of high thoughts and simplicity. But so be it. With partial hand take this collection of pied chapters: half droll, half sad, 12 plain-folk, ideal, the careless fruit of my amusements, insomnias, light inspirations, unripe and withered years, 16 the intellect's cold observations, and the heart's sorrowful remarks. CHAPTER ONE To live it hurries and to feel it hastes. Prince Vyazemski I “My uncle has most honest principles: when he was taken gravely ill, he forced one to respect him 4 and nothing better could invent. To others his example is a lesson; but, good God, what a bore to sit by a sick person day and night, not stirring 8 a step away! What base perfidiousness to entertain one half-alive, adjust for him his pillows, 12 sadly serve him his medicine, sigh — and think inwardly when will the devil take you?” II Thus a young scapegrace thought as with post horses in the dust he flew, by the most lofty will of Zeus 4 the heir of all his kin. Friends of Lyudmila and Ruslan! The hero of my novel, without preambles, forthwith, 8 I'd like to have you meet: Onegin, a good pal of mine, was born upon the Neva's banks, where maybe you were born, 12 or used to shine, my reader! There formerly I too promenaded — but harmful is the North to me. 1 III Having served...

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Часть текста: Александр: Комментарий к роману Владимира Набокова «Дар» Глава третья Глава третья 3–1 … еще сохранились рифмы, богатенькие вперемежку с нищими: поцелуя – тоскуя, лип – скрип, аллея – алея (листья или закат?). – Рифма «алея – аллея» использована в юношеском стихотворении Набокова «Ласка»: «Ласкаясь к лазури, прозрачно алея, / Стыдился, смеясь, изумительный день; / Змеей золотистой казалась аллея; / Крылом голубиным – лиловая тень», где действительно остается неясным, что именно алеет: осенние «румяные листья» или же закат (Набоков 2002: 471–472). В том же сборнике 1916 года «Стихи», где была напечатана «Ласка», есть несколько вариантов рифмы к «поцелуя»: ликуя, танцуя, ревную, а также глагольная рифма «тоскуют – целуют» (Там же: 468, 478, 481, 491). Что же касается рифмы «лип – скрип», то в ученических опытах Набокова она не встречается, но обнаруживается во многих текстах поэтов Серебряного века – Брюсова, Бунина, С. М. Соловьева, Ахматовой и др. Из них на садово-парковую эротическую лирику Годунова-Чердынцева больше всего похожи «Летний бал» Брюсова (1910) и «Тихой ночью поздний месяц вышел…» Бунина (1916). 3–2 … тетя Ксения, та писала стихи только по-французски <… > ее излияния были очень популярны в петербургском свете, особенно поэма «La femme et la panthère»… – Название и тема поэмы «Женщина и пантера» ведут свое происхождение от французского изобразительного искусства второй половины XIX – начала ХХ века и, подобно многим живописным работам на этот сюжет, имеют отчетливые эротические коннотации. См., например, картину Камиля Коро (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1796–1875) «La Bacchante à la...

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Часть текста: 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,...

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Часть текста: Набокова на английском языке. Playboy, 1964 г. Playboy [1964] This exchange with Alvin Toffler appeared in Playboy for January, 1964. Great trouble was taken on both sides to achieve the illusion of a spontaneous conversation. Actually, my contribution as printed conforms meticulously to the answers, every word of which I had written in longhand before having them typed for submission to Toffler when he came to Montreux in mid-March, 1963. The present text takes into account the order of my interviewer's questions as well as the fact that a couple of consecutive pages of my typescript were apparently lost in transit. Egreto perambis doribus! With the American publication of Lolita in 1958, your fame and fortune mushroomed almost overnight from high repute among the literary cognoscenti-- which you bad enjoyed for more than 30 years-- to both acclaim and abuse as the world-renowned author of a sensational bestseller. In the aftermath of this cause celebre, do you ever regret having written Lolita? On the contrary, I shudder retrospectively when I recall that there was a moment, in 1950, and again in 1951, when I was on the point of burning Humbert Humbert's little black diary. No, I shall never regret Lolita. She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle-- its composition and its solution at the same time, since one is a mirror view of the other, depending on the way you look. Of course she completely eclipsed my other works-- at least those I wrote in English: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, my short...

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Часть текста: her ample, soft belly, would throw Russki parties every now and then, with Russki hors d'oeuvre and guitar music and more or less phony folk-songs — occasions at which shy graduate students would be taught vodka-drinking rites and other stale Russianisms; and after such feasts, upon meeting gruff Pnin, Serafima and Oleg (she raising her eyes to heaven, he covering his with one hand) would murmur in awed self-gratitude: „Gospodi, skol'ko mï im dayom! (My, what a lot we give them!)“ — „them“ being the benighted American people. Only another Russian could understand the reactionary and Sovietophile blend presented by the pseudo-colorful Komarovs, for whom an ideal Russia consisted of the Red Army, an anointed monarch, collective farms, anthroposophy, the Russian Church and the Hydro-Electric Dam». [1] Представляется, что под именами Олег и Серафима Комаровы автор вывел своих компатриотов — писателя Алексея Михайловича Ремизова (1877–1957) и его жену Серафиму Павловну, née Довгелло (1876–1943). Помимо очевидного подобия личных имен у мужчин [2] и совпадения у женщин, обращает на себя внимание полное портретное сходство набоковских героев с их прототипами. Малорослость Ремизова (особенно заметная, когда рядом с ним оказывалась его корпулентная...

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Часть текста: Menton, 1937-38 (CNN) - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov is known as one of the century's great writers, particularly as the author of "Lolita." But he had many more dimensions, and in the end of his life he became the Eccentric Writer, one who avoided publicity at all costs (even declining election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters), preferring a quiet life engaging in creation and Lepidoptera. Born on, or about, April 23, 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Nabokov's childhood was spent in storybook fashion. The oldest of five children , he grew up in a wealthy and aristocratic family, shuttling between the family's two homes (one in St. Petersburg , and the other - an estate - 50 miles south in the countryside). He enjoyed playing tennis and soccer, but spent hours at a time embroiled in his passion - chasing and collecting butterflies, a hobby he apparently learned from his father . At the time, Russia was under the rule of Tsar Nicholas II, and Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov ,...

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Часть текста: мелодией», связанной с композиционным узлом произведения можно рассматривать комплекс тем трактующих аллегорически-психологическое превращение автора шахматной защиты Лужина в её жертвенного персонажа – черного шахматного коня. Соответственно в области подтекста эти темы раскрываются, подсвечиваются и дополняются введением в текст аллюзий на такие произведения-претексты как: - книга Л. Кэрролла «Алиса в зазеркалье» с её образом Белого шахматного рыцаря (White Knight) – аллегорического авторского двойника, - или «Медный Всадник» Пушкина, рассмотренный в контексте, или сквозь призму критических и художественных текстов Мережковского, Брюсова, Белого, представляющих эволюцию символа Медного Всадника, - или история рыцаря-безумца в «Дон Кихоте» Сервантеса. Вместе с тем, когда мы переходим к рассмотрению в произведении философского, смыслового подтекста мы видим, что в построении выразительной целостности этого совокупно-единого высказывания, вместе с «ведущей мелодией», разворачивающимся «лейтмотивом», автором задействуется целая гамма сопутствующих тематических звучаний. И в качестве поясняющей музыкальной аллегории хотел бы использовать образ симфонического звучания тем в самом романе и в актуализируемых в нем подтекстах. «Симфонического», т. е. созвучного (Симфония - др. -греч. συμφωνία — «созвучие, стройное звучание, ...

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