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Часть текста: " as the honnкtes gens used to put it in judicious France, " the aurelian, " as the poets said in grove-rich England, the "fly doctor," as they wisecracked in advanced Russian circles) who wished to acquire from books a general notion of the fauna of Europe, including Russia, was compelled to scrabble for his crumbs of information in entomological journals in six languages and in multivolume, hard-to-find editions such as the Oberthьr books or those of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich. The absence or utter inadequacy of "references" in the atlases ad usum Delphini, the tedious perusal of the index of names enclosed with an annual volume of a monthly journal, the sheer number of these journals and volumes (in my father's library there were more than a thousand of the latter alone, representing a good hundred journals) - all this had to be overcome in order to hunt down the necessary reference, if it existed at all. Nonetheless, even in my exceptionally propitious situation...

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Часть текста: 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 stories, my book of recollections; but I cannot grudge her this. There is a queer, tender charm about that mythical nymphet. Though many readers and reviewers would disagree that her charm is ...

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Часть текста: Он увлечен образом Карла II потому, что сам мнит себя свергнутым королем. Его не интересуют ни причины революции Кромвеля, ни то обстоятельство, что Кромвель казнил Карла I. Однако и здесь навязчивая идея Кинбота скрывает значимый для самого Набокова смысл: отсылки к английской Реставрации в «Бледном огне» — это своего рода способ раскрыть политическое измерение темы гибели Владимира Дмитриевича Набокова от руки убийцы. Как мы уже отмечали в предисловии, характер гибели Джона Шейда, воспринятой Кинботом в качестве неудачной попытки цареубийства, напоминает о том, что отец Набокова пал случайной жертвой политического убийства. Кинбот считает, что убийца Шейда также целил в другого: воспринимая все происходящее с ним в контексте земблянской политики, он отказывается поверить в то, что убийцей был беглый преступник, решивший отомстить судье Гольдсворту и введенный в заблуждение его сходством с Шейдом. На параллелизм двух убийств указывает тщательно продуманная хронология «Бледного огня»: Джон Шейд погибает 21 июля, в день рождения отца Набокова [164] . В соответствии с доминирующим в «Бледном огне» принципом перевернутых зеркальных отражений (особенно в отношении мужского/женского) мать Кинбота, королева Зембли, умирает 21 июля. Шейд погибает, едва закончив поэму, посвященную смерти его дочери и природе потусторонности. Поэма Шейда соотносится с набоковской темой трансцендирования трагедии...

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Часть текста: 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 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...

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Часть текста: Набоков и популярная культура. // Новое литературное обозрение. № 26. 1997. С.201-222. 8 Медарич М. Владимир Набоков и роман ХХ столетия // Russian Literature (Amsterdam). № ХХІХ. 1991. С. 79-100. 9 Сконечная О. Люди лунного света в русской прозе Набокова (К вопросу о набоковском пародировании мотивов Серебряного века) // Звезда, 1996. № 11. С. 207-214. 10 Липовецкий М. Эпилог русского модернизма: (Художественная философия творчества в «Даре» Набокова) // Вопросы литературы. 1994. Вып. 3. С.72-95. 11 См. например: Злочевская А.В. Роман В. Набокова «Ада» в контексте русской литературной традиции. // Вестник МГУ. Сер. 9. Филология. 2001. № 2. С. 34-46. 12 Александров В.Е. Набоков и потусторонность. - СПб., 1999. 13 Линецкий В.В. «Ани-Бахтин», или Лучшая книга о Владимире Набокове. -СПб., 1994. 14 Букс Н. Эшафот в хрустальном дворце. О русских романах Владимира Набокова. - М., 1998. 15 Левин Ю. Биспациальность как инвариант поэтического мира Набокова // Russian Literature. Amsterdam, 1990. XXVIII (1). C. 45-124. 16 Мулярчик А. С. Русская проза Владимира Набокова. - М., 1997. 17 Давыдов С.С. «Тексты-матрешки» Владимира Набокова. - Munchen: Otto Sagner, 1982. 18 Boyd B. Vladimir Nabokov. The russian years. - Princeton, New Jersey, 1990. (Русский перевод: Бойд Б. Владимир Набоков: Русские годы. Биография. - СПб., 2001.) 19 Анастасьев Н. Феномен Набокова. - М., 1992.; Анастасьев Н. Владимир Набоков. Одинокий король. - М., 2002. 20 Носик Б.М. Мир и дар Владимира Набокова. Первая русская биография. - М., 1995. 21 Целкова Л.Н. В.В. Набоков в жизни и творчестве. - М., 2001. 22 Бло Ж. Набоков. - СПб., 2000. 23 Зверев А. Набоков. ЖЗЛ. - М., 2001. 24 Рягузова...

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Часть текста: dogs howl only by inspiration; one can easily ascertain this by causing a little dog to howl close to one's face (Buffon)." Littre. ed. integrate, 1963 The enthusiasm, concentration, and unusual manifestation of the mental faculties (umstvennyh sil). Dal, Revised Ed., St. Petersburg, 1904 A creative upsurge. [Examples: ] Inspired poet. Inspired socialistic work. Ozhegov, Russian dictionary, Moscow, 1960 A special study, which I do not plan to conduct, would reveal, probably, that inspiration is seldom dwelt upon nowadays even by the worst reviewers of our best prose. I say "our" and I say "prose" because I am thinking of American works of fiction, including my own stuff. It would seem that this reticence is somehow linked up with a sense of decorum. Conformists suspect that to speak of "inspiration" is as tasteless and old-fashioned as to stand up for the Ivory Tower. Yet inspiration exists as do towers and tusks. One can distinguish several types of inspiration, which intergrade, as ...

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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 poetically superstitious. She said she knew she would die soon after my sixteenth birthday, and ...

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Часть текста: 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 sleuths or zigzagging zanies. She hardly glanced at the famous, oddly shaped, splendidly flushed rock which jutted above the mountains and had been the take-off for nirvana on the part of a temperamental show girl. The town was newly built, or rebuilt, on the flat floor of a seven-thousand-foot-high valley; it would soon bore Lo, I hoped, and we would spin on to California, to the Mexican border, to mythical bays, saguaro desserts, fatamorganas. Jos Lizzarrabengoa, as you remember, planned to take his Carmen to the Etats Unis. I conjured up a Central American tennis competition in which Dolores Haze and various Californian schoolgirl champions would dazzlingly participate. Good-will tours on that smiling level eliminate the distinction between passport and sport. Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. Mrs. Hays,...

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Часть текста: романе представлена картина «рождения», «созревания», «жизни», «смерти», и «воскресения» шахматной фигуры – Чёрного Коня. "Быстро все превращается в человеке; не успеешь оглянуться, как уже вырос внутри страшный червь, самовластно обративший к себе все жизненные соки. И не раз только широкая страсть, но ничтожная страстишка к чему-нибудь мелкому разрасталась в рожденном на лучшие подвиги, заставляла его позабывать великие и святые обязанности и в ничтожных побрякушках видеть великое и святое. Бесчисленны, как морские пески, человеческие страсти, и все непохожи одна на другую, и все они, низкие и прекрасные, вначале покорны человеку и потом уже становятся страшными властелинами его " Гоголь Н. В. «Мертвые души»[1] Роман В. Набокова «Защита Лужина» поднимает целый пласт проблем психологического характера. Веером раскрывающиеся темы психологии творчества, детской психологии, психологии личности, психологии конфликтной...

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Часть текста: It was mine, it was part of my hot hairy fist. In a few minutessay, twenty, say half-an-hour, sicher its sicher as my uncle Gustave used to sayI would let myself into that “342” and find my nymphet, my beauty and bride, imprisoned in her crystal sleep. Jurors! If my happiness could have talked, it would have filled that genteel hotel with a deafening roar. And my only regret today is that I did not quietly deposit key “342” at the office, and leave the town, the country, the continent, the hemisphere,indeed, the globethat very same night. Let me explain. I was not unduly disturbed by her self-accusatory innuendoes. I was still firmly resolved to pursue my policy of sparing her purity by operating only in the stealth of night, only upon a completely anesthetized little nude. Restraint and reverence were still my motto-even if that “purity” (incidentally, thoroughly debunked by modern science) had been slightly damaged through some juvenile erotic experience, no doubt homosexual, at that accursed camp of hers. Of course, in my old-fashioned, old-world way, I, Jean-Jacques Humbert, had taken for granted, when I first met her, that she was as unravished as the stereotypical notion of “normal child” had been since the lamented end of the Ancient World B. C. and its fascinating practices. We are not surrounded in our enlighted era by...

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