Часть текста: 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, despite “that French kid’s uncle” being “a millionaire,” Lo dropped Eva for some reason before I had had time to enjoy in my modest way her fragrant presence in the Humbert open house. The reader knows what importance I attached to having a bevy of page girls,...

2. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 18 - 22

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Часть текста: latter for hardly a month; when Monsieur wants to get the whole damned thing over with as quickly as possible, and Madame gives in with a tolerant smile; then, my reader, the wedding is generally a “quiet” affair. The bride may dispense with a tiara of orange blossoms securing her finger-tip veil, nor does she carry a white orchid in a prayer book. The bride’s little daughter might have added to the ceremonies uniting H. and H. a touch of vivid vermeil; but I knew I would not dare be too tender with cornered Lolita yet, and therefore agreed it was not worth while tearing the child away from her beloved Camp Q. My soi-disant passionate and lonely Charlotte was in everyday life matter-of-fact and gregarious. Moreover, I discovered that although she could not control her heart or her cries, she was a woman of principle. Immediately after she had become more or less my mistress (despite the stimulants, her “nervous, eager chri a heroic chri ! had some initial trouble, for which, however, he amply compensated her by a fantastic display of old-world endearments), good Charlotte interviewed me about my relations with God. I could have answered that on that score my mind was open; I said, insteadpaying my tribute to a pious platitudethat I believed in a cosmic spirit. Looking down at her fingernails, she also asked me had I not in my family a certain strange strain. I countered by inquiring whether she would still want to marry me if my father’s maternal grandfather had been, say, a Turk. She said it did not matter a bit; but that, if she ever found out I did not believe in Our Christian God, she would commit suicide. She said it so solemnly...

3. Мейер Присцилла. "Бледный огонь" Владимира Набокова. Библиография

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Часть текста: русского периода: В 5 т. СПб.: Симпозиум, 2000. Т. 4. С. 188–541. Набоков В. Другие берега // Набоков В. Собр. соч. русского периода: В 5 т. СПб.: Симпозиум, 2000. Т. 5. С. 140–335. Набоков В. Интервью Альфреду Аппелю, август 1970 // Набоков о Набокове и прочем: Интервью, рецензии, эссе. М.: Независимая Газета, 2002. С. 293–311. — Пер. А. Г. Николаевской. Набоков В. Интервью Альфреду Аппелю, сентябрь 1966 // Набоков о Набокове и прочем: Интервью, рецензии, эссе. М.: Независимая Газета, 2002. С. 177–209. — Пер. М. Мейлаха и М. Дадяна. Набоков В. Интервью Олвину Тоффлеру, март 1963 // Набоков о Набокове и прочем: Интервью, рецензии, эссе. М.: Независимая Газета, 2002. С. 129–157. — Пер. Д. Федосова. Набоков В. Искусство литературы и здравый смысл // Набоков В. Лекции по зарубежной литературе. М.: Независимая Газета, 1998. С. 465–476. — Пер. Г. Дашевского. Набоков В. Комментарий к роману А. С. Пушкина «Евгений Онегин». СПб.: Искусство — СПб; Набоковский фонд, 1998. — Пер. Е. М. Видре, Г. М. Дашевского, Н. М. Жутовской и др. Набоков В. Нежить // Набоков В. Собр. соч. русского периода: В 5 т. СПб.: Симпозиум, 1999. Т. 1. С. 29–31. Набоков В. Николай Гоголь (1809–1852) // Набоков В. Лекции по русской литературе. М.: Независимая Газета, 1996. С. 29–134. — Пер. Е. Голышевой под ред. В. Голышева. Набоков В. Лекции по зарубежной литературе. М.: Независимая Газета, 1998. — Пер. И. М. Бернштейн, В. П. Голышева, Г. М. Дашевского и др. Набоков В. Лолита // Набоков В. Собр. соч. американского периода: В 5 т. СПб.: Симпозиум, 1997. Т. 2. С. 8–390. — Пер. автора. Набоков В. О хороших читателях и хороших писателях // Набоков В. Лекции по зарубежной...

4. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. TV-13 NY, 1965 г.

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Часть текста: 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 of course say Nabokoff, with the accent on the last syllable. Englishmen say Nabokov, accent on the first, and Italians say Nabokov, accent in the middle, as Russians also do. Na- bo -kov. A heavy open "o" as in "Knickerbocker". My New England ear is not offended by the long elegant middle "o" of Nabokov as delivered in American academies. The awful "Na-bah-kov" is a despicable gutterism. Well, you can make your choice now. Incidentallv, the first name is pronounced Vladeemer-- rhyming with "redeemer"-- not Vladimir rhyming with Faddimere (a place in England, I think). How about the name of your extraordinary creature. Professor P-N-I-N? The "p" is sounded, that's all. But since the "p" is mute in English words starting w-ith "pn", one is prone to insert a supporting "uh" sound-- "Puh-- nin"-- which is wrong. To get the "pn" right, try the combination "Up North", or still better "Up, Nina!", leaving out the initial "u". Pnorth, Pnina, Pmn. Can you do that? . . . That's fine. You 're responsible for brilliant summaries of the lives and works of Pushkin and Gogol. How would you summarize your own? It is not so easy to summarize something which is not quite finished yet. However, as I've...

5. Мейер Присцилла. "Бледный огонь" Владимира Набокова. 8. Наука: флора, фауна и фантазия

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Часть текста: 8. Наука: флора, фауна и фантазия 8. НАУКА: ФЛОРА, ФАУНА И ФАНТАЗИЯ Если на неназванном острове капитан Шмидт Видит нового зверя и ловит его, И если немного позднее капитан Смит Привозит оттуда шкуру, то этот остров не миф. Джон Шейд. Бледный огонь (57, строки 759–762) …в сущности научное и сверхъестественное — чудо мышц и чудо мысли — оба необъяснимы, как и все пути Господни. Чарльз Кинбот. Бледный огонь (159, примеч. к строке 230) На самом деле, чем значительнее познания, тем сильнее ощущение тайны. Владимир Набоков [285] Джон Шейд занят исследованием областей потустороннего; Кинбот подробно описывает географию земблянского полуострова и рисует для Шейдов детальный план дворца в Онхаве. Набоков прибегает к географической метафоре для описания творческого процесса. В «Память, говори» он рассуждает о действия[х] творческого разума, от прокладки курса через опасные моря до писания тех невероятно сложных романов, где автор в состоянии ясного безумия ставит себе единственные в своем роде правила и преграды, которые он соблюдает и одолевает с пылом божества, строящего полный жизни мир из самых невероятных материалов — из скал, из листов копировальной бумаги, из незрячего трепета (568). Рассказ Кинбота о своем бегстве из Зембли — это реализация метафоры Набокова: он преодолевает невероятные преграды, однако его «ясное безумие» имеет буквальный смысл, тогда как набоковское — метафорический. «Незрячий трепет» Кинбота почти во всем отличается от набоковского, однако скалы, символизирующие природный мир, существуют независимо от обоих — это сырой материал, общий для обоих «безумцев». Путешественники...

6. Джонсон Д. Б.: Владимир Набоков и Руперт Брук

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Часть текста: в Кембридже и окончили университет в 1922 году. Набоков впервые рассказывает о годах, проведенных в Кембридже, в главе автобиографии «Квартирка в Тринити-Лейн». Все три версии мемуаров Набокова и оба его биографа описывают молодого человека, занятого воссозданием потерянной России и относительно равнодушного к английскому окружению. [1] Большинство его друзей в Кембридже были русскими эмигрантами. Молодой Набоков считал себя русским поэтом, и поэзии суждено было стать его основным занятием во время пребывания в Кембридже. Уже являясь автором двух сборников, опубликованных в России, [2] он написал много новых стихотворений во время 16-месячного изгнания в Крыму. Ностальгическое воссоздание «своей» России является самой распространенной темой его стихотворений 1918–1922 годов. Набокова настолько поглотило творчество, что для Англии и Кембриджа оставалось мало эмоциональной энергии. Первый биограф Набокова, Эндрю Филд, приводит его слова, в которых он описывает свои годы в Кембридже как «длинную череду неловкостей, ошибок и всякого рода неудач и глупостей, включая...

7. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. BBC Television, 1962 г.

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Часть текста: 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 has grown tremendously provincial during these forty years, apart from the fact that people there are...

8. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Bayerischer Rundfunk, 1971-72 г.

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Часть текста: all kinds of time, such as for example "applied time"-- 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 ...

9. Lolita. Part Two. Chapters 22 - 26

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Часть текста: 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 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 ...

10. Вне Лолиты: Вновь открывая Набокова. (Проект CNN, 1999 г.). Nabokov's Pictorial Biography

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Часть текста: 1907 at Vyra, the summer estate of his maternal grandfather located about 50 miles south of St. Petersburg. During his youth, Nabokov spent his time collecting butterflies around the Vyra estate, a place which would come to represent the essence of childhood for the writer. Fleeing Russia The Nabokov family fled Russia in 1919 after the Bolshevik revolution led to instability at home. This photo, taken less than six months before they were to leave Russia, shows the five Nabokov children: from left, Vladimir, Kirill, Olga, Sergei and Elena. 2. Exile 1919-1940 Exile in England After fleeing Russia, the family moved to England, where Nabokov attended Trinity College at Cambridge from 1919-1922. He began his studies in zoology but later focused on Russian and French literature. Death of his father Nabokov, shown in larger photo, spends the summer after his father's death at the home of Svetlana Siewert, his one-time fiancee. Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (bottom right) was shot to death in Berlin while trying to stop right-wing Russian assassins from killing politician Pavel Miliukov in March 1922. Marriage to Vèra Nabokov and Vèra Slonim met in May of 1923 at a charity costume ball and later married in 1925 in Berlin. After settling down into marriage, Nabokov never purchased his own house,...

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