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Часть текста: and stood there, shining in the sun, its doors open like wings, its front wheels 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;...

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Часть текста: 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, ...

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Часть текста: brawnto mention only mentionable matters. There was the day when having withdrawn the functional promise I had made her on the eve (whatever she had set her funny little heart ona roller rink with some special plastic floor or a movie matinee to which she wanted to go alone), I happened to glimpse from the bathroom, through a chance combination of mirror aslant and door ajar, a look on her face… that look I cannot exactly describe… an expression of helplessness so perfect that it seemed to grade into one of rather comfortable inanity just because this was the very limit of injustice and frustrationand every limit presupposes something beyond ithence the neutral illumination. And when you bear in mind that these were the raised eyebrows and parted lips of a child, you may better appreciate what depths of calculated carnality, what reflected despair, restrained me from falling at her dear feet and dissolving in human tears, and sacrificing my jealousy to whatever pleasure Lolita might hope to derive from mixing with dirty and dangerous children in an outside world that was real to her. And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. Once,...

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Часть текста: а также глагольная рифма «тоскуют – целуют» (Там же: 468, 478, 481, 491). Что же касается рифмы «лип – скрип», то в ученических опытах Набокова она не встречается, но обнаруживается во многих текстах поэтов Серебряного века – Брюсова, Бунина, С. М. Соловьева, Ахматовой и др. Из них на садово-парковую эротическую лирику Годунова-Чердынцева больше всего похожи «Летний бал» Брюсова (1910) и «Тихой ночью поздний месяц вышел…» Бунина (1916). 3–2 … тетя Ксения, та писала стихи только по-французски <… > ее излияния были очень популярны в петербургском свете, особенно поэма «La femme et la panthère»… – Название и тема поэмы «Женщина и пантера» ведут свое происхождение от французского изобразительного искусства второй половины XIX – начала ХХ века и, подобно многим живописным работам на этот сюжет, имеют отчетливые эротические коннотации. См., например, картину Камиля Коро (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1796–1875) «La Bacchante à la Panthère» («Вакханка с пантерой», 1860) или «Нимфу и пантеру» («Nymphe et panthère», 1895) художника-символиста Пьера-Эмиля Корнийе (Pierre-Émile Cornillier, 1862–1948). Особую популярность сюжет приобрел в графике и скульптуре ар-деко. Из многочисленных примеров приведем лишь рекламный плакат ювелирной фирмы «Картье» (1914) работы графика Жоржа Барбье (George Barbier, 1882–1932). Литературным источником поэмы мог бы быть эффектный эпизод новеллы Ж. А. Барбе д’Оревильи (Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly, 1808–1889) «Le Bonheur dans le crime» («Счастье в преступлении») из сборника «Les diaboliques» («Дьяволицы», 1874). Рассказчик и...

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Часть текста: a flock of swans: his own vatic fingers he laid on the live strings, which then twanged out by themselves a paean to princes. So let us begin, brothers, this tale- from Vladimir of yore to nowadays Igor. who girded his mind with fortitude, and sharpened his heart with manliness; [thus] imbued with the spirit of arms, he led his brave troops against the Kuman land in the name of the Russian land. Boyan apostrophized O Boyan, nigh tingale of the times of old! If you were to trill [your praise of] these troops, while hopping, nightingale, over the tre e of thought; [if you were] flying in mind up to the clouds; [if] weaving paeans around these times, [you were] roving the Troyan Trail, across fields onto hills; then the song to be sung of Igor, that grandson of Oleg [, would be]: "No storm has swept falcons across wide fields; flocks of daws flee toward the Great Don"; or you might intone thus, vatic Boyan, grandson of Veles: "Steeds neigh beyond the Sula; glory rings in Kiev; trumpets blare in Novgorod[-Seversk]; banners are raised in Putivl." Vsievolod's speech Igor waits for his dear brother Vsevolod. And Wild Bull Vsevolod [arrives and] says to him: "My one brother, one bright brightness, you Igor! ...

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Часть текста: the classification of butterflies, according to the details of their dissected genitals. Classical philology is hardly a more popular or accessible pursuit than lepidoptery, but the volume (edited by Christopher Ricks), which includes passages from Housman's technical writings as well as the poems, is an outstanding success. The advantages of that book over this one were that it was wieldy, that it never left the domain of culture and that it showed a side of the writer absent from his verse. The slyly fatalistic persona of the poet made a fascinating contrast with the professor of Latin, who was a doughty if not brutal scrapper, and never split a hair in argument if there was a chance of splitting the person to whom it was attached. When Nabokov wrote in 1947 that his scientific papers 'have no interest whatever for the layman', he was expressing pride as much as melancholy. Any reader would enjoy the passage reprinted here from his novel, The Gift, about the living arrangements of those large blues which have 'concluded a barbaric pact' with ants: 'I saw how an ant, greedily tickling a hind segment of that caterpillar's sluglike little body, forced it to excrete a drop of intoxicant juice, which it swallowed immediately. In compensation, it offered its own larvae as food; it was as if cows gave us Chartreuse and we gave them our infants to eat. ' His prose, though, is impenetrable even when there are touches of the same precise fancy dimly detectable: 'The most conspicuous thing about...

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Часть текста: adolescence, the butterfly enthusiast (" le curieux, " 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 things were not easy: Russia, particularly in the north, dwelt in a mist, while the local lists, scattered through the journals, totally haphazard, scanty, and cruelly inaccurate in nomenclature, only maddened me when at last I ferreted them out. My father was the preeminent entomologist of his time, and very well off to boot, but the ordinary amateur, unable to dispatch his scouts throughout Russia, and denied the opportunity - or not knowing how - to gain access to specialized collections and libraries (and an accidental boon, the hasty inspection of collections at a lepidopterological society or in the cellar of some museum, does not satisfy the true enthusiast, who needs to have the boon always ...

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Часть текста: Whenever that happenedwhenever her lovely, childish scrawl was horribly transformed into the dull hand of one of my few correspondentsI used to recollect, with anguished amusement, the times in my trustful, pre-dolorian past when I would be misled by a jewel-bright window opposite wherein my lurking eye, the ever alert periscope of my shameful vice, would make out from afar a half-naked nymphet stilled in the act of combing her Alice-in-Wonderland hair. There was in the fiery phantasm a perfection which made my wild delight also perfect, just because the vision was out of reach, with no possibility of attainment to spoil it by the awareness of an appended taboo; indeed, it may well be that the very attraction immaturity has for me lies not so much in the limpidity of pure young forbidden fairy child beauty as in the security of a situation where infinite perfections fill the gap between the little given and the great promisedthe great rosegray never-to-be-had. Mes fentres! Hanging above blotched sunset and welling night, grinding my teeth, I would crowd all the demons of my desire against the railing of a throbbing balcony: it would be ready to take off in the apricot and black humid evening; did take offwhereupon the lighted image would move and Even would revert to a rib, and there would be nothing in the window but an...

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Часть текста: Владимира Набокова «Дар» Глава вторая Глава вторая 2–1 Отец однажды, в Ордосе <… >ненароком вошел в основу радуги, – редчайший случай! – и очутился в цветном воздухе, в играющем огне, будто в раю. – Ордос – плато в Китае, в северной излучине реки Хуанхэ (Желтой реки). По свидетельству Г. Н. Потанина (1835–1920), путешествовавшего по восточному Ордосу, местные монголы связывают образ небесной радуги с грядущим пришествием «какого-то <… > богоподобного существа» (Потанин 1893: I, 129). Как заметил С. В. Сакун [gippodemos.livejournal.com/11414.html], в книге Генри Торо «Уолден, или жизнь в лесу» («Walden; Or, Life in the Woods», 1854) есть похожий рассказ о вхождении в радугу: «Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow’s arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal. It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin» (Thoreau 1906: 224; букв. пер.: «Однажды мне случилось стоять внутри основания радуги, которая заполнила нижние слои воздуха, окрашивая траву и...

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Часть текста: words: V. V. Nabokov, V. D. Nabokov, Pushkin, death penalty, executioner, masquerade, suit, platitude. Статья посвящена развитию темы смертной казни в произведениях Набокова - от ранних стихотворений до ‘Speak, Memory’. Особое внимание уделяется палачу как вызывающему презрение персонажу, главной фигуре в “отвратительной театральщине” тоталитарных и революционных государств. В статье рассматривается ранее неизвестные исторические и литературные источники концепта палача и обсуждается его символика. В особенности, в центре внимания в статье оказываются одеяние палача и его изображения. Ключевые слова: В.В. Набоков, В.Д. Набоков, Пушкин, смертная казнь, палач, маскарад, костюм, пошлость. После Достоевского и Толстого никто из русских писателей не уделял столь большого внимания теме смертной казни, как Набоков. Появившись впервые в исторических декорациях французской революции (ранняя драма в стихах «Дедушка» и стихотворение «В каком раю впервые прожурчали...», оба 1923), тема переходит в два стихотворения о русских расстрелах («Бывают ночи: только лягу.» и «Небритый, смеющийся, бледный.», оба 1927), появляется в «Короле, даме, валете» (Драйер размышляет о смертной казни в Криминалистическом музее), сопутствует Мартыну, герою «Подвига», чью вероятную казнь за пределами текста предсказывают эпизод на горной крымской дороге, где пьяный незнакомец с револьвером грозится его расстрелять, и чтение «Истории французской революции» Карлейля, когда он рисует в воображении «простоту черной гильотины и неуклюжую возню на помосте, где палачи тискают голоплечего толстяка, меж тем как в толпе добродушный гражданин поднимает под локотки любопытную, но низкорослую гражданку» [14, т. 3, с. 143]. Потом она мелькает в «Отчаянии» (фон портрета Германа намекает на виселицы; на встрече Нового года Ардалион шутя предсказывает ему обезглавливание,...

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