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Часть текста: 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...

2. Комментарий к роману "Евгений Онегин". Предваряющие тексты

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Часть текста: qui fait avouer avec la même indifférence les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d’un sentiment de supériorité, peut-être imaginaire. Tiré d’une lettre particulière Pétri de vanité… — Исправления, сделанные в ПБ 8, и инициалы «А. П.», заменяющие эпиграф в ПД 129, наталкивают на предположение, что эта цитата вымышленная, по крайней мере в ее окончательном афористическом виде. Бессмысленно рассуждать, существовало ли когда-нибудь цитируемое «частное письмо», а если существовало, то кто был его автором, но для любителей искать действительных прототипов вымышленных героев и «реальную жизнь» на ведущих в никуда дорогах искусства я приготовил сжатое, сухое исследование в комментарии к гл. 1, XLVI, 5–7. Мысль снабдить легкомысленную историю эпиграфом философского толка явно позаимствована у Байрона. К первым двум песням «Паломничества Чайльд Гарольда» (London, 1812) Байрон послал Р. Ч. Далласу (16 сентября 1811 г.) эпиграф, начинающийся словами: «L'univers est une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la premièr page» [63] из «Космополита» Луи Шарля Фужере де Монброна (London, 1750, р. 1) [64] . Туманные эпиграфы были особенно любимы английскими авторами; такой эпиграф вызывал интроспективные ассоциации, и тут, конечно, должно вспомнить Вальтера Скотта, самого талантливого сочинителя эпиграфов. Слово «pétri» в переносном смысле («охваченный», «погруженный», «состоящий из») довольно часто употреблялось французскими авторами, которым подражал Пушкин. Лабрюйер в «Характерах, или Нравах нынешнего века» (1688) использует «pétri» (с написанием «paistri» и...

3. Погребная Я.В.: «Плоть поэзии и призрак прозрачной прозы...» - лирика В.В. Набокова. Примечания

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Часть текста: из «Мертвых душ» в «Приглашении на казнь» Набокова // Гоголевский сборник. - СПб., 1994. 7 Сендерович С., Шварц Е. Вербная штучка. Набоков и популярная культура. // Новое литературное обозрение. № 26. 1997. С.201-222. 8 Медарич М. Владимир Набоков и роман ХХ столетия // Russian Literature (Amsterdam). № ХХІХ. 1991. С. 79-100. 9 Сконечная О. Люди лунного света в русской прозе Набокова (К вопросу о набоковском пародировании мотивов Серебряного века) // Звезда, 1996. № 11. С. 207-214. 10 Липовецкий М. Эпилог русского модернизма: (Художественная философия творчества в «Даре» Набокова) // Вопросы литературы. 1994. Вып. 3. С.72-95. 11 См. например: Злочевская А.В. Роман В. Набокова «Ада» в контексте русской литературной традиции. // Вестник МГУ. Сер. 9. Филология. 2001. № 2. С. 34-46. 12 Александров В.Е. Набоков и потусторонность. - СПб., 1999. 13 Линецкий В.В. «Ани-Бахтин», или Лучшая книга о Владимире Набокове. -СПб., 1994. 14 Букс Н. Эшафот в хрустальном дворце. О русских романах Владимира Набокова. - М., 1998. 15 Левин Ю. ...

4. Lolita. Part One. Chapters 9 - 11

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Часть текста: accepted the soft job fate offered me: it consisted mainly of thinking up and editing perfume ads. I welcomed its desultory character and pseudoliterary aspects, attending to it whenever I had nothing better to do. On the other hand, I was urged by a war-time university in New York to complete my comparative history of French literature for English-speaking students. The first volume took me a couple of years during which I put in seldom less than fifteen hours of work daily. As I look back on those days, I see them divided tidily into ample light and narrow shade: the light pertaining to the solace of research in palatial libraries, the shade to my excruciating desires and insomnias of which enough has been said. Knowing me by now, the reader can easily imagine how dusty and hot I got, trying to catch a glimpse of nymphets (alas, always remote) playing in Central Park, and how repulsed I was by the glitter of deodorized career girls that a gay dog in one of the offices kept unloading upon me. Let us skip all that. A dreadful breakdown sent me to a sanatorium for more than a year; I went back to my workonly to be hospitalized again. Robust outdoor life seemed to promise me some relief. One of my favorite doctors, a charming cynical chap with a little brown beard, had a brother, and this brother was about to lead an expedition into arctic Canada. I was attached to it as a “recorder of psychic reactions.” With two young botanists and an old carpenter I shared now and then (never very successfully) the favors of one of our nutritionists, a Dr. Anita Johnsonwho was soon flown...

5. Lolita. Part Two. Chapters 17 - 21

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Часть текста: a kind of dull amazement at the curiously inane life we all had rigged up for her) and satisfied myself that the precious contents of the “luizetta” were safe. There, snugly wrapped in a white woolen scarf, lay a pocket automatic: caliber. 32, capacity of magazine 8 cartridges, length a little under one ninth of Lolita’s length, stock checked walnut, finish full blued. I had inherited it from the late Harold Haze, with a 1938 catalog which cheerily said in part: “Particularly well adapted for use in the home and car as well as on the person.” There it lay, ready for instant service on the person or persons, loaded and fully cocked with the slide lock in safety position, thus precluding any accidental discharge. We must remember that a pistol is the Freudian symbol of the Ur-father’s central forelimb. I was now glad I had it with meand even more glad that I had learned to use it two years before, in the pine forest around my and Charlotte’s glass lake. Farlow, with whom I had roamed those remote woods, was an admirable marksman, and with his. 38 actually managed to hit a hummingbird, though I must say not much of it could be retrieved for proofonly a little iridescent fluff. A burley ex-policeman called Krestovski, who in the twenties had shot and killed two escaped convicts, joined us and bagged a tiny...

6. Anniversary notes

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Часть текста: 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 of fiction. His essay "Backgrounds of Lolita" is a superb example of the rare case where art and erudition meet in a shining ridge of specific information (the highest and to me most acceptable function of literary criticism). I would have liked to say more about his findings but modesty (a virtue that the average reviewer especially appreciates in authors) denies me that pleasure. His other piece in this precious collection is "Ada Described." I planted three blunders, meant to ridicule mistranslations of Russian classics, in the first...

7. Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin. Chapter two

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Часть текста: 8 before it, freaked and flowered, lay meadows and golden grainfields; one could glimpse hamlets here and there; herds roamed the meadows; 12 and its dense coverts spread a huge neglected garden, the retreat of pensive dryads. II The venerable castle was built as castles should be built: excellent strong and comfortable 4 in the taste of sensible ancientry. Tall chambers everywhere, hangings of damask in the drawing room, portraits of grandsires on the walls, 8 and stoves with varicolored tiles. All this today is obsolete, I really don't know why; and anyway it was a matter 12 of very little moment to my friend, since he yawned equally amidst modish and olden halls. III He settled in that chamber where the rural old-timer had for forty years or so squabbled with his housekeeper, 4 looked through the window, and squashed flies. It all was plain: a floor of oak, two cupboards, a table, a divan of down, and not an ink ...

8. Шадурский В.В.: Интертекст русской классики в прозе Владимира Набокова. Примечания

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Часть текста: М., 1996. С. 215-221. 3 Фоменко И. В. Цитата // Русская словесность. 1998. № 1. С. 73. 4 Евсеев А. С. Основы теории аллюзии (на материале русского языка). Диссерт. на соиск. уч. ст. к. филол. н. М., 1990. С. 135. 5 Евсеев А. С. Там же. С. 136. 6 Машкова Л. А. Литературная аллюзия как предмет филологической герменевтики. Диссерт. на соиск. уч. ст. к. филол. н. М., 1989. С. 50. 7 Бухаркин П. Е. О функции цитаты в повествовательной прозе // Вестник Ленингр. ун-та. 1990. Сер. 2. Вып. 3. С. 29. 8 Davydov Sergej. ‘Teksty-Matreshki’ Vladimira Nabokova. Munchen, 1982. 9 Мулярчик А. С. Набоков и «набоковианцы» // Вопросы литературы. 1994. Вып. 3. С. 125169. 10 Липовецкий М. Н. Из предыстории русского постмодернизма (метапроза Владимира Набокова) // Липовецкий М. Н. Русский постмодернизм: Очерки исторической поэтики. Екатеринбург, 1997.С. 44-106. 11 Кучина Т. Г. Творчество В. Набокова в зарубежном литературоведении. Диссерт. на соиск. уч. ст. к. филол. н. М., 1996. С. 67. 12 Анастасьев Н. А. Феномен Набокова. М., 1992; Анастасьев Н. А. Владимир Набоков. Одинокий король. М., 2002. 13 Стеценко В. С. Насмешливый мираж: Набоков - Достоевский - Пушкин (на материале романа «Отчаяние») // Язык. Культура. Методика: Сб. статей. Луганск, 1996. С. 128-129. 14 Ильин С. А., Шапкин А. А. Набоков и Тургенев: Интертекстуальные связи (на материале повестей «Ася», «Вешние воды» и романа «Машенька») // Язык. Культура. Методика: Сб. статей. Луганск, 1996. С....

9. Шраер Д. Максим: Спасение еврейско-русского мальчика - рассказы Набокова в ожидании катастрофы

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10. Чарльз Кинбот: Серебристый свет. Подлинная жизнь Владимира Набокова. Chapter Three. Mashen'ka

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Часть текста: For three years the mental image of those cahiers laid edge to edge on Berthoud's desk blotter burned in my brain like a neon eidolon. Here was V. Sirin's first book of prose, in fair copy, before me. Curiously enough, one cannot read a book, one can only reread it, as the Master once wrote. And this I did, many times, savoring the turns of phrase and the shades of words, staunch in my belief that a careful rereader, forearmed with a knowledge of what is to come, is more apt to catch the glimpses of future greatness that the prose of a first novel allows. After having considered and discarded one by one a series of clever but clumsy titles for this chapter I settled on the pedestrian choice above. Engaging in verbal legerdemain while speaking of Nabokov is a perilous and perhaps foolhardy undertaking, given his own multilingual mastery over words--one might compare it to beginning a talk on Nijinsky by stepping from behind the lectern to attempt a jeté or two. While much, indeed too much, has been written about Nabokov's English novels, much less has been said about his earliest Russian fiction. It is to this I must now turn. My editor has chided me for diverging too frequently and too widely from my subject--but what is a life if not a series of diversions from some hidden, ineffable theme? Mashen'ka opens with the tongue-twisting name and patronymic of the protagonist Ganin, Lev Glebovich, which, complains the character Alferov, "iazyk vyzvikhnut' mozhno" (7). Instantly we are made aware of the potential treachery of words. With Alferov's statement a few paragraphs later that "vsiakoe imia obiazyvaet," we are also reminded of their power. The first stylistic glimmer of the mature Nabokov, ...

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