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Часть текста: from our careful jottings, in the spring, 1971, issue of Novel, A Forum on Fiction, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. In the twelve years since the American publication of Lolita, you've published twenty-two or so books-- new American or Antiterran novels, old Russian works in English, Lolita in Russian-- giving one the impression that, as someone has said-- John Updike, I think-- your oeuvre is growing at both ends. Now that your first novel has appeared (Mashenka, 1926), it seems appropriate that, as we sail into the future, even earlier works should adhere to this elegant formula and make their quantum 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...

2. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The Sunday Times, 1969 г.

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Часть текста: taking great care to make them as concise as possible. My replies represent unpublished material, should be printed verbatim and in toto, and copyrighted in my name. Answers may be rearranged in whatever order the interviewer car the editor wishes: for example, they may be split, with insertion of the questioner's comments or bits of descriptive matter (but none of the latter material may be ascribed to me). Unprepared remarks, quips, etc., may come from me during the actual colloquy but may nut be published without my approval. The article will be shown to me before publication so as to avoid factual errors {e. g., in names, dates, etc.). Mr. Oakes' article appeared in The Sunday Times on June 22, 1969. As a distinguished entomologist and novelist do you find that your two main preoccupations condition, restrict, or refine your view of the world? What world? Whose world? If we mean the average world of the average newspaper reader in Liverpool, Livorno, or Vilno, then we are dealing in trivial generalities. If, on the other hand, an artist invents his own world, as I think I do, then how can he be said to influence his own understanding of what he has created himself? As soon as we start defining such terms as "the writer," "the world," "the novel," and so on, we slip into a solipsismal abyss where general ideas dissolve. As to butterflies-- well, my taxonomic papers on lepidoptera were published mainly in the nineteen forties, and can be of interest to only a few specialists in certain groups of American butterflies. In itself, an aurelian's passion is not a particularly unusual sickness; but it stands outside the limits of a novelist's world, and I can prove this by the fact that whenever I allude to butterflies in my novels, no matter how diligently I rework the stuff, it remains pale and false and does not really express what I want it to express-- what, indeed, it can only express in the special...

3. Nabokov: from lepidopterology to "Lolita"

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Часть текста: when he caught his first specimen on his family estate. A few years later, Nabokov was precocious enough to think he had found a new species, only to have his dreams dashed. Undaunted, he set out on a life of butterfly hunting, interspersed with equally passionate forays into fiction. Nabokov not only realised his dream of finding a new species; he had several named after him. He became an authority on the taxonomy of a family known as the "Blues". "It is not improbable," he said, "that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology." To him, butterflies represented a form of immortality, whereby the asexual, shuffling caterpillar transmogrified after "death" into an aerial acrobat with the sexual potency to impart a physical presence to future generations. Although not avowedly religious, Nabokov suspected a conscious design to the world and thought it likely, according to his biographer, Brian Boyd, that there was some transformation of human consciousness beyond death. The astounding metamorphosis of ugly bug into beautiful, if ephemeral, butterfly epitomised this magical passage of the upwardly mobile soul. "We are the caterpillars of angels," he wrote. At Trinity College, Cambridge, Nabokov switched from natural sciences to French and Russian literature. Writing became his spouse, but lepidoptery was his mistress, with whom he spent summers in the montane regions of Europe and America. Nabokov's contribution to taxonomy is unquestioned. In addition to describing new species, he formulated a novel method of classification based on the counting of wing scales, with his beautiful illustrations reproduced in this new anthology. Nabokovian humour shines through these writings, illustrated by a note he penned to Hugh Hefner pointing out...

4. Йожа Д. З.: Мифологические подтексты романа "Король, дама, валет"

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Часть текста: в романе «тетей», налицо в «Защите Лужина», где тетя способствует развитию в еще маленьком Лужине смертоносной страсти к шахматам, на которую можно смотреть как на патологическую или роковую. Согласно теории В. Александрова, шахматы связаны с моментом епифании космического рода. [1] Классические традиции в построении романа о прелюбодеянии Набоков строго соблюдает. Как у многих других мастеров этого жанра, в частности, — у Толстого в «Анне Карениной», развязка включает смерть главной героини. [2] В соответствии с идеями Толстого, телесная любовь ведет к катастрофе. Толстовские реминисценции как в «Камере обскура», [3] так и в «Короле, даме, валете» читатель найдет в изобилии. Любовь здесь — губительная, страсть — преимущественно телесная. Она разрушительна и для Марты, и для Франца, и для Драйера. Мотив транспорта, как и в других произведениях Набокова, занимает особое место в романе «Король, дама, валет», который начинается описанием путешествия на поезде — не в манере Толстого, но, безусловно, с ее учетом. Франц начинает свой путь в поезде, а в финале романа попадает в лодку. В противоположность ему Ганин, герой первого романа Набокова, сначала вспоминает о лодке, на которой он некогда катался вместе с Машенькой (лодка изображена на беклиновской картине «Остров мертвых», висящей в комнате Клары), и лишь в последний момент мы видим Ганина в купе поезда. Катание в лодке ведет к смертельной болезни Марты. Этот итог связан с характером героини: она не просто блудница, неверная супруга, но соблазнительная, коварная, злая сила. И если у Толстого смерть сопряжена с духовным...

5. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The New York Times Book Review, 1968 г.

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Часть текста: York Times Book Review the way they are prepared here? (Except that you may want to interrupt the longer answers by several inserted questions). That convenient method has been used to mutual satisfaction in interviews with Playboy, The Paris Review, Wisconsin Studies, Le Monde, La Tribune de Genève, etc. Furthermore, I like to see the proofs for checking last-minute misprints or possible little flaws of fact (dates, places). Being an unusually muddled speaker (a poor relative of the writer) I would like the stuff I prepared in typescript to be presented as direct speech on my part, whilst other statements which I may stammer out in the course of our chats, and the gist of which you might want to incorporate in The Profile, should be used, please, obliquely or paraphrastically, without any quotes. Naturally, it is for you to decide whether the background material should be kept separate in its published form from the question-and-answer section. I am leaving the attached material with the concierge because I think you might want to peruse it before we meet. I am very much looking forward to seeing you. Please give me a ring when you are ready." The text given...

6. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Anonymous, 1972 г.

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Часть текста: to haw had difficulty in describing its theme. Its theme is merely a beyond-the-cypress inquiry into a tangle of random destinies. Amongst the reviewers several careful readers have published some beautiful stuff about it. Yet neither they nor, of course, the common criticule discerned the structural knot of the story. May I explain that simple and elegant point? You certainly may. Allow me to quote a passage from my first page which baffled the wise and misled the silly: "When we concentrate on a material object. . . the very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object." A number of such instances of falling through the present's "tension film" are given in the course of the book. There is the personal history of a pencil. There is also, in a later chapter, the past of a shabby room, where, instead of focusing on Person and the prostitute, the spectral observer drifts down into the middle of the previous century and sees a Russian traveler, a minor Dostoevski, occupying that room, between Swiss gambling house and Italy. Another critic has said- Yes, I am coming to that. Reviewers of my little book made the lighthearted mistake of assuming that...

7. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The Paris Review, 1967 г.

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Часть текста: 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? Whose "reality"? "Everyday" where? Let me suggest that the very term "everyday reality" is utterly static since it presupposes a situation that is permanently observable, essentially...

8. Коннолли Дж. В.: "Король, дама, валет"

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Часть текста: которым проникнута «Машенька». Критики уже в 1928 году отметили эти перемены. М. Цетлин обратил внимание на смелое решение Набокова отойти от «русской темы» и заметил, что местами роман напоминает перевод с немецкого, хотя и не смог обнаружить в тексте «германизмов». [1] Когда Набоков опубликовался в первом выпуске журнала «Числа», Георгий Иванов так далеко зашел в своих грубых нападках, что заявил, будто «Король, дама, валет» был дотошно скопирован с посредственных немецких образцов. [2] Возможно, реакцией на подобные замечания стало утверждение Набокова, высказанное в предисловии к английскому переводу романа: «По-немецки я не говорил, немецких друзей у меня не было, и я не прочитал к тому времени ни единого немецкого романа ни в подлиннике, ни в переводе». [3] Набоков заявил, что мог бы избрать местом действия этого произведения Румынию или Голландию с тем же успехом, что и Берлин, но его знакомство с...

9. Карпов Н.А.: Романтические контексты Набокова. Избранная библиография

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Часть текста: В. В. Предисловие к английскому переводу романа «Приглашение на казнь» («Invitaion to a Beheading») // В. В. Набоков: Pro et contra [Т. 1]. СПб., 1997. C. 46-48. Набоков В. В. Рассказы. Приглашение на казнь. Роман. Эссе, интервью, рецензии. м., 1989. Nabokov V. Invitation to a Beheading. New York, 1989. Nabokov V. Strong Opinions. New York, 1973. Nabokov V. The Defense. New York, 1990. Общие работы Абрамова В. И. Мотив «невыразимого» в русской романтической картине мира: от В. А. Жуковского к К. К. Случевскому: дис. ... канд. филол. наук. м., 2007. Александров А. В. Русский романтический рассказ. Одесса, 2000. 144 с. Альбеткова Р. И. Фантастические образы в русском романтизме 30-х годов XIX века // Из истории русского романтизма: сб. статей. Вып. 1. Кемерово, 1971. С. 86-101. Асмус В. Ф. Музыкальная эстетика философского романтизма // Сов. Музыка. 1934. № 1. С. 51-61. Бахтин М. М. Проблемы поэтики Достоевского. М., 1972. 470 с. Берковский Н.Я. Романтизм в Германии. Л., 1973. 568 с. Берновская Н. М. образ чудака и проблема духовной утопии в истории немецкой литературы от Жан-Поля до Германа Гессе // вопросы литературы и стилистики германских языков. М., 1975. С. 27-76. Благой Д. Д. Литература и действительность. М., 1959. 516 с. Бухштаб Б. Я....

10. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 23 - 27

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Часть текста: deep in evergreen shrubbery. To the anatomical right of this car, on the trim turn of the lawn-slope, an old gentleman with a white mustache, well-dresseddouble-breasted gray suit, polka-dotted bow-tielay supine, his long legs together, like a death-size wax figure. I have to put the impact of an instantaneous vision into a sequence of words; their physical accumulation in the page impairs the actual flash, the sharp unity of impression: Rug-heap, car, old man-doll, Miss O.’s nurse running with a rustle, a half-empty tumbler in her hand, back to the screened porchwhere the propped-up, imprisoned, decrepit lady herself may be imagined screeching, but not loud enough to drown the rhythmical yaps of the Junk setter walking from group to groupfrom a bunch of neighbors already collected on the sidewalk, near the bit of checked stuff, and back to the car which he had finally run to earth, and then to another group on the lawn, consisting of Leslie, two policemen and a sturdy man with tortoise shell glasses. At this point, I should explain that the prompt appearance of the patrolmen, hardly more than a minute after the accident, was due to their having been ticketing the illegally parked cars in a cross lane two blocks down the grade; that the fellow with the glasses was Frederick Beale, Jr., driver of the Packard; that his 79-year-old father, whom the nurse had just watered on the green bank where he laya banked banker so to speakwas not in a dead faint, but was comfortably and methodically recovering from a mild heart attack or its possibility; and, finally, that the laprobe on the sidewalk (where she had so often pointed out to me with disapproval the crooked green cracks) concealed the mangled remains of Charlotte Humbert who had been knocked down...

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