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Часть текста: печати» (1). В своем недавнем интервью Национальному общественному радио Дмитрий Набоков признавался, что не хочет войти в историю как литературный поджигатель, соблазняя любопытных набоковедов утверждением, что это «самый блестящий роман» отца, что он не похож ни на что написанное им прежде. В 2005 году стали появляться истеричные требования американских журналистов, любителей сенсаций: «Дмитрий, не сжигай Лору!» (английское произношение имени Лаура), — так кричал со страниц New York Observer Рон Розенбаум (1). Вступивший в литературную дискуссию драматург Том Стоппард настаивал на сожжении рукописи, прозаик Джон Бэнвилл говорил: «Сохраните ее» (1). Возникла иронично-гамлетовская ситуация «быть или не быть», раздутая во вселенском масштабе, но в действительности на пустом месте. Ситуацию с посмертным распоряжением Набокова во многом прояснил биограф и один из крупнейших специалистов-набоковедов, профессор Оклендского университета Брайан Бойд. По его словам, он прочел рукопись в 1987 году и посоветовал тогда еще живой вдове Вере Слоним и Дмитрию не публиковать, а уничтожить фрагменты. Желание сохранить незаконченный роман вступило в противоречие с завещанием писателя, в итоге годы, видимо, сгладили пафос и значение посмертной воли Набокова, и фрагменты романа были опубликованы. К тому же, по словам Бойда, этот не первая в творчестве писателя попытка сжечь незаконченное произведение. Брайан Бойд вспомнил, что, разбирая в конце 1970-х годов архив Набокова, он увидел рукопись последнего тогда романа «Смотри на арлекинов!» с пометкой автора: «Уничтожить, если роман останется незаконченным» (1). Но этот роман был закончен и напечатан, а неисполненное завещание объяснялось присущим Набокову перфекционизмом. В. Набоков составил о себе мнение в истории литературы как блестящий...

2. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Wisconsin Studies, 1967 г.

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Часть текста: 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, Alfred Appel, Jr. For years bibliographers and literary journalists didn't know whether to group you under "Russian" or "American. "Now that you're...

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

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Часть текста: 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 audience is invited to participate; it is then applauded by the players in a curious reversal of roles made chic by Soviet performers ordered to emulate the mise-en-sce´ne of party congresses; and the term "happening" has already managed to grow obsolescent. He might have commented that the quest for originality for its own sake has led to ludicrous excesses and things have taken their helter-skelter course in random theatre as they have in random music ...

4. Утгоф Г.М.: «Audiatur et altera pars» - к проблеме «Набоков и Лоуэлл»

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Часть текста: в том числе о встречах с Борисом Пастернаком» 2 . Справка эта нуждается в существенных дополнениях. В частности, что такое те «мерзостны<е> “преображен- ии<я>”», о которых с таким гневом пишет своему адресату Набоков? Очевидно, что речь здесь идет об одной из тогдашних новинок - антологии “Poets on Street Corners” («Поэты на уличных углах») под редакцией О. В. Андреевой-Карлайль. В антологию эту вошли переводы из пятнадцати русских поэтов: А. Блока, Анны Ахматовой, Б. Пастернака, О. Мандельштама, М. Цветаевой, В. Маяковского, С. Есенина, Н. Заболоцкого, Б. Поплавского, Е. Евтушенко, А. Вознесенского, И. Холина, Г. Сапгира, Б. Ахмадулиной и И. Бродского 3 . Переводы из Мандельштама, выполненные Робертом Лоуэллом, лауреатом Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize 1962 г., помещены в антологии с указанием на их подчеркнуто вольный характер. Уже этого одного обстоятельства было достаточно для того, чтоб Набоков счел Лоуэлла оскорбителем тени покойного Мандельштама - поэта, который Набокову был особенно дорог в те годы 4 . В 1964 г. в предисловии к своему комментированному переводу пушкинского...

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

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Часть текста: 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 told what to read, what to think. In America I'm happier than in any other country. It is in America that I found my best readers, minds that are closest to mine. I feel intellectually at home in America. It is a second home in the true sense of the word. You're a professional lepidopterist? Yes, I'm interested in the classification, variation, evolution, structure, distribution, habits, of lepidoptera: this sounds very grand, but actually I'm an expert in only a very small group of butterflies. I have contributed several works on butterflies to the various scientific...

6. Anniversary notes

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Часть текста: Illinois) which is dedicated to me on the occasion of my seventieth birthday. I soon realized, however, that I might find myself discussing critical studies of my fiction, something I have always avoided doing. True, a festschrift is a very special and rare occasion for that kind of sport, but I did not wish to create even the shadow of a precedent and therefore decided simply to publish the rough jottings I made as an objective reader anxious to eliminate slight factual errors of which such a marvelous gift must be free; for I knew what pains the editors, Charles Newman and Alfred Appel, had taken to prepare it and remembered how firmly the guest co-editor, when collecting the ingredients of this great feast, refused to show me any plum or crumb before publication. BUTTERFLIES Butterflies are among the most thoughtful and touching contributions to this volume. The old-fashioned engraving of a Catagramma- like insect is delightfully reproduced twelve times so as to suggest a double series or "block" of specimens in a cabinet case; and there is a beautiful photograph of a Red Admirable (but "Nymphalidae" is the family to which it belongs, not its genus, which is Vanessa-- my first bit of carping). ALFRED APPEL, JR. Mr. Appel, guest co-editor, writes about my two main works...

7. Биография (вариант 5)

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Часть текста: по линии отца, Дмитрий Николаевич Набоков, был министром юстиции в правительствах Александра II и Александра III, бабушка по линии отца Мария Фердинандовна, баронесса фон Корф (1842-1926), дочь барона Фердинанда-Николая-Виктора фон Корфа (1805—1869), немецкого генерала русской службы. Дед по линии матери Иван Васильевич Рукавишников (1843-1901), золотопромышленник, меценат, бабушка по линии матери Ольга Николаевна Рукавишникова, ур. Козлова (1845-1901), дочь действительного тайного советника Николая Илларионовича Козлова (1814-1889), выходца из купеческой семьи, ставшего врачом, биологом, профессором и начальником Императорской медико-хирургической академии и главой медицинской службы русской армии. В обиходе семьи Набокова использовалось три языка: русский, английский и французский, - таким образом, будущий писатель владел тремя языками с раннего детства. По собственным словам, он научился читать по-английски прежде, чем по-русски. Первые годы жизни Набокова прошли в комфорте и достатке в доме Набоковых на Большой Морской в Петербурге и в их загородном имении Выра (под Гатчиной). Образование начал в Тенишевском училище в Петербурге, где незадолго до этого учился Осип Мандельштам. Литература и энтомология становятся двумя основными увлечениями Набокова. Осенью 1916, за год до Октябрьской революции Владимир Набоков получил имение Рождествено и миллионное наследство от Василия Ивановича Рукавишникова, дяди со стороны матери. В 1916 году Набоков, ещё будучи учеником Тенишевского училища, на собственные деньги издаёт в Петербурге под своей фамилией первый поэтический сборник «Стихи» (68 стихотворений, написанных с августа 1915 по май 1916). В этот период он выглядит веселым ...

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

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Часть текста: 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 discussed seriously. Another critic has written that your "worlds are static. They may become tense with obsession, but they do not...

9. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Novel, 1970 г.

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Часть текста: 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 in the original and in translation; fourteen poems which I wrote directly in English, after 1940 and my arrival in America (all of which were published in The New Yorker), and eighteen chess problems, all but two of which were composed in recent years (the chess manuscripts of the 1940-1960 period have been mislaid and the earlier unpublished jottings are not worth printing). These Russian poems constitute no more than one percent of the mass of verse which I exuded with monstrous regularity during my youth. Do the components of that monstrous mass fall into any discernible periods or stages of development? What can be called rather grandly my European period of verse-making seems to show several distinctive stages: an initial one of passionate and commonplace love verse (not represented in Poems and Problems)-, a period reflecting utter distrust of the so-called October Revolution; a period (reaching well into the nineteen-twenties) of a kind of private curatorship, aimed at preserving nostalgic retrospections and developing Byzantine imagery (this has been mistaken by some readers for an interest in "religion" which, beyond literary stylization, never meant anything to me); a period lasting another decade or so during which I set myself to illustrate the principle of making a short poem contain a plot and tell a story (this in a way expressed my impatience with the dreary drone of the anйmie "Paris School" of emigre poetry); and finally, in the late thirties, and especially in the following decades, a sudden liberation from self-imposed shackles, resulting both in a...

10. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Playboy, 1964 г.

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Часть текста: [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 stories, my book of recollections; but I cannot grudge her this. There is a queer, tender charm about that ...

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