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Часть текста: San Miguel County, Colorado, in order to search for the unknown female of what I had described as Lycaeides argyrognomon sublivens in 1949 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 101: p. 513) on the strength of nine males in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, which had been taken in the vicinity of Telluride half a century ago. L. sublivens is an isolated southern representative (the only known one south of northwestern Wyoming, southeast of Idaho, and east of California) of the species (the holarctic argyrognomon Berg str.=idas auct.) to which anna Edw., scudderi Edw., aster Edw., and six other nearctic subspecies belong. I bungled my family's vacation but got what I wanted. Owing to rains and floods, especially noticeable in Kansas, most of the drive from New York State to Colorado was entomologically uneventful. When reached at last, Telluride turned out to be a damp, unfrequented, but very spectacular cul-de-sac (which a prodigious rainbow straddied every evening) at the end of two converging roads, one from Placerville, the other from Dolores, both atrocious. There is one motel, the optimistic and excellent Valley View Court where my wife and I stayed, at 9,000 feet altitude, from the 3rd to the 29th of July, walking up daily to at least 12,000 feet along various more or less steep trails in search of sublivens. Once or twice Mr. Homer Reid of Telluride took us up in his jeep. Every morning the sky would be of an impeccable blue at 6 a. m. when I set out. The first innocent cloudlet would scud across at 7: 30 a. m. Bigger fellows with darker bellies would start tampering with the sun around 9 a. m., just as we emerged from the shadow of the cliffs and trees onto good hunting grounds. Everything would be cold and gloomy half an hour later. At around 10 a. m. there would come the daily electric storm, in several installments, accompanied by the most...

2. Роупер Р: Набоков в Америке. По дороге к «Лолите». Глава 14

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Часть текста: энтомологической статье под названием “Охота на бабочек в Вайоминге, 1952 год” 1 Набоков вспоминал, что “почти весь август ловил бабочек в окрестностях очаровательного городка под названием Афтон”, куда вела мощеная дорога, проходившая возле границы со штатом Айдахо. У Набоковых был отдельный домик с ванной. Домики, расставленные вокруг центральной площадки, точно крытые конные фургоны первых поселенцев 2 , представляли собой тесаные срубы с угловыми шиповыми соединениями типа “ласточкин хвост” (при котором конец каждого бревна выходит за стык стен). С бревен сдирали кору и покрывали лаком, щели заделывали известковым раствором и обшивали вагонкой. Corral Log Motel, Афтон, штат Вайоминг. Фото автора. В горах неподалеку от Афтона берут начало несколько ручьев и текут на запад. Набоков шел вверх по течению ручья и ловил бабочек в прибрежных кустах. “В начале августа, - писал он в статье, - лужи на тропинках в лесном заповеднике Бриджер облепляют миллионы N. californica Boisd., садятся стайками по четыре и более сотни и пьют воду, а по каньону ровным потоком носится бесчисленное количество бабочек” . В ту пору Набоков уже три года работал над “Лолитой”. В основном это были приготовления, то, что он сам называл “пальпировать в уме” 4 , разнообразные заметки. Во время весеннего семестра в Гарварде в 1952 году он, вероятно, принялся за черновик 5 , но летом практически ничего не писал . Летом...

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

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Часть текста: 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...

4. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 28 - 33

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Часть текста: of her which I had locked inafter satisfying myself that the door carried no inside bolt. The key, with its numbered dangler of carved wood, became forthwith the weighty sesame to a rapturous and formidable future. 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 little slave flowers...

5. Маяцкий М.: Читать “Лолиту” в эпоху Дютру

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Часть текста: “Лолиту” — и обнаружил в ней поразительный арсенал средств для артикуляции моего смутного недоверия к афере Дютру. Пиши Набоков “Лолиту” сегодня, Долорес Гейз и ее товарки по семейству нимфеток не только бегали бы по парку или играли в теннис, но, несомненно, катались бы на скейт-бордах, на этих уютных челноках- челенджерах, на этих маленьких челенджах-пощечинах скоростным вкусам большого города, на этих лодках одиночества, этих крошечных мустангах, колыбельках трения, на этих мини-локомотивах, на которых одновременно стоишь и мчишься прямиком на Дикий Запад. Папа-Гумочка заботливо кричал бы, перемешивая, как всегда, свой переведенный на русский английский с оставленным непереведенным, как бы неконвертируемым, французским, этим знаком Старого Света и старорежимного стыдливого либертинажа: “Лола! Ты забыла proteges-tibias^! Protege-тебя!” Чтобы сойти за правдоподобного папу 90-х годов, Гумберт должен был бы защищать- оберегать свою дочку-наложницу не только от прыщавых одноклассников, но и от неловкого падения со скейт-борда (этого чемпиона детского травматизма), наркотиков, спида, повседневной делинквентности, феминистского террора и, конечно, от рыщущих вокруг педофилов. Лола и Гума 90-х годов были бы погружены в атмосферу тотальной протективности- презервативности. Как уберечь всех от вся? Людей — от катастроф, третий мир — от голода, Ирак — от Америки, окружающую среду — от окруженного ею человека, гомиков — от реакционных нормалов, их всех — от спида, клиента — от засилья предпринимателя, клиента адвоката — с помощью...

6. Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Chapter six

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Часть текста: eyes, and the endless cotillion 8 irked her like an oppressive dream. But it has ended. They go in to supper. The beds are made. Guests are assigned night lodgings — from the entrance hall 12 even to the maids' quarters. Restful sleep by all is needed. My Onegin alone has driven home to sleep. II All has grown quiet. In the drawing room the heavy Pustyakov snores with his heavy better half. 4 Gvozdin, Buyanov, Petushkov, and Flyanov (who is not quite well) have bedded in the dining room on chairs, with, on the floor, Monsieur Triquet 8 in underwaistcoat and old nightcap. All the young ladies, in Tatiana's and Olga's rooms, are wrapped in sleep. Alone, sadly by Dian's beam 12 illumined at the window, poor Tatiana is not asleep and gazes out on the dark field. III With his unlooked-for apparition, the momentary softness of his eyes, and odd conduct with Olga, 4 to the depth of her soul she's penetrated. She is quite unable to understand him. Jealous anguish perturbs her, 8 as if a cold hand pressed her heart; as if beneath her an abyss yawned black and dinned.... “I ...

7. L. C. Higcins and N. D. Riley

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Часть текста: marvelous guide to the Palaearctic butterflies west of the Russian frontier now produced by-Lionel C. Higgins, author of important papers on Lep-idoptera, and Norman D. Riley, keeper of insects at the British Museum. The exclusion of Russia is (alas) a practical necessity. Non-utilitarian science does not thrive in that sad and cagey country; the mild foreign gentleman eager to collect in the steppes will soon catch his net in a tangle of barbed wire, and to work out the distribution of Evers-mann's Orange Tip or the Edda Ringlet would have proved much harder than mapping the moon. The little maps that the Field Guide does supply for the fauna it covers seem seldom to err. I note that the range of the Twin-spot Fritillary and that of the Idas Blue are incorrectly marked, and I think Nogell's Hairstreak, which reaches Romania from the east, should have been included. Among minor shortcomings is the somewhat curt way in which British butterflies are treated (surely the Norfolk race of the Swallowtail, which is so different from the Swedish, should have received more attention). I would say that alder, rather than spruce, characterizes the habitat of Wolfens-berger's and Thor's Fritillaries. I regret that the dreadful nickname "Admiral" is used instead of the old "Admirable." The new vernacular names are well invented-- and, paradoxically, will be more attractive to the expert wishing to avoid taxonomic controversy when indicating a species than to the youngster who will lap up the Latin in a trice. The checklist of ...

8. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. The New York Times, 1969 г.

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Часть текста: The New York Times, April 19, 1969, with only two or three of my answers retained. The rest are to be used, I suppose, as "Special to The New York Times" at some later date by A. W., if he survives, or by his successor. I transcribe some of our exchanges. You have called yourself "an American writer, born in Russia and educated in England. " How does this make you an American writer? An American writer means, in the present case, a writer who has been an American citizen for a quarter of a century. It means, moreover, that all my works appear first in America. It also means that America is the only country where I feel mentally and emotionally at home. Rightly or wrongly, I am not one of those perfectionists who by dint of hypercriticizing America find themselves wallowing in the same muddy camp with indigenous rascals and envious foreign observers. My admiration for this adopted country of mine can easily survive the jolts and flaws that: , indeed, are nothing in comparison to the abyss of evil in the history of Russia, not to speak of other, more exotic, countries. In the poem "To My Soul, "you wrote, possibly of yourself, as "a provincial naturalist, an eccentric lost in paradise. " This appears to link your interest in butterflies to other aspects of...

9. Эссе о драматургии ("Playwriting", на английском языке)

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Часть текста: Soviet theatre, and an analysis of commentary on drama by several American critics. The two lectures presented here have been selected to accompany Nabokov's plays because they embody, in concentrated form, many of his principal guidelines for writing, reading, and performing plays. The reader is urged to bear in mind, however, that, later in life, Father might have expressed certain thoughts differently. The lectures were partly in typescript and partly in manuscript, replete with Nabokov's corrections, additions, deletions, occasional slips of the pen, and references to previous and subsequent installments of the course. I have limited myself to what editing seemed necessary for the presentation of the lectures in essay form. If Nabokov had been alive, he might perhaps have performed more radical surgery. He might also have added that the gruesome throes of realistic suicide he finds unacceptable onstage (in "The Tragedy of Tragedy") are now everyday fare on kiddies' TV, while "adult" entertainment has long since outdone all the goriness of the Grand Guignol. He might have observed that the aberrations of theatrical method wherein the illusion of a barrier between stage and audience is shattered - a phenomenon he considered "freakish" - are now commonplace: actors wander and mix; the...

10. Ада, или Эротиада (перевод О. М. Кириченко). Часть вторая. Глава 9

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Часть текста: соседа, любовника сестрички. Автор сюжета многократно шла на уступки свободным нравам эпохи, а также пошлым фантазиям сценаристов; но, как и исполнительница главной роли, она полностью отреклась от того, что получилось в итоге многочисленных вторжений в сценарий и вылилось под конец в историю некого убийства в Аризоне, жертвой которого стал вдовец, собравшийся жениться на проститутке-алкоголичке, которую Марина, не без оснований, воплощать отказалась. Однако бедная Адочка схватилась за предложенную рольку, двухминутный эпизод в трактире (roadside tavern). Во время репетиций ей казалось, что она неплохо справляется с образом соблазнительной официантки — пока режиссер не заявил, что она нескладна, как «заторможенная вобла». Ада не решалась смотреть на конечный продукт и не горела желанием показывать его Вану, однако он напомнил, что тот же самый режиссер, Г. А. Вронский, некогда утверждал, что с ее внешностью Ада запросто сможет когда-нибудь стать дублершей Ленор Коллин, которая в свои двадцать была так же прелестно неуклюжа, и...

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