Поиск по творчеству и критике
Cлово "TALENT"

Часть текста: 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 living in Switzerland there seems to be complete agreement that you're American. Do you find this kind of distinction at all important regarding your identity as a writer? I have always maintained, even as a schoolboy in Russia, that the nationality of a worthwhile writer is of secondary importance. The more distinctive an insect's aspect, the less apt the taxonomist is to glance first of all at the locality label under the pinned specimen in order to decide which of several vaguely described races it should be assigned to. The writer's art is his real passport. His identity should be immediately recognized by a special pattern or unique coloration. His habitat may confirm the correctness of the determination but should not lead to it. Locality labels are known to have been faked by unscrupulous insect dealers. Apart from these considerations I think of myself today as an American writer who has once been a Russian o! ne. The Russian writers you have translated and written about all precede the so-called "age of realism, " which is more celebrated by...

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

Входимость: 3. Размер: 53кб.

Часть текста: 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...

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

Входимость: 3. Размер: 59кб.

Часть текста: Introduction The lectures "The Tragedy of Tragedy" and "Playwriting" were composed for a course on drama that Nabokov gave at Stanford during the summer of 1941. We had arrived in America in May of 1940; except for some brief guest appearances, this was Father's first lecturing engagement at an American university. The Stanford course also included a discussion of some American plays, a survey of 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...

4. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. Bayerischer Rundfunk, 1971-72 г.

Входимость: 2. Размер: 17кб.

Часть текста: Bayeriscber Rundfunk. Of its many topics and themes I have selected a few for reproduction in this volume. The bit about my West European ancestors comes from a carefully executed and beautifully bound Ahnentafel, given me on my seventieth birthday by my German publisher Heinrich Maria Ledig-RowohIt. ON TIME AND ITS TEXTURE We can imagine all kinds of time, such as for example "applied time"-- time applied to events, which we measure by means of clocks and calendars; but those types of time are inevitably tainted by our notion of space, spatial succession, stretches and sections of space. When we speak of the "passage of time," we visualize an abstract river flowing through a generalized landscape. Applied time, measurable illusions of time, are useful for the purposes of historians or physicists, they do not interest me, and they did not interest my creature Van Veen in Part Four of my Ada. He and I in that book attempt to examine the essence of Time, not its lapse. Van mentions the possibility of being "an amateur of Time, an epicure of duration," of being able to delight sensually in the texture of time, "in its stuff and spread, in the fall of its folds, in the very impalpability of its grayish gauze, in the coolness of its continuum." He also is aware that "Time is a fluid medium for the...

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

Входимость: 2. Размер: 20кб.

Часть текста: on the Bookstand program and was published in The Listener (November 22, 1962). I have mislaid the 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...

6. Вне Лолиты: Вновь открывая Набокова. (Проект CNN, 1999 г.). The Writer

Входимость: 2. Размер: 8кб.

Часть текста: as encompassing as "Alice in Wonderland," wrote academic papers and lectures, critical reviews, and nonfiction works. He also wrote a screenplay for the 1962 movie version of "Lolita," directed by Stanley Kubrick. In short, he was obsessed with words and was not intimidated by genre. He spent his working life trying to capture the perfect style and structure on the page, in the same way he netted a butterfly that fluttered in his path. Nabokov, known as VN, first gained acclaim in Berlin, writing in his native Russian language and developing a following with fellow émigrés. In 1923, shortly after his graduation from Cambridge, Nabokov was busy with work - he published four plays (including "Death" and "The Grandfather") and two books of poetry ("The Empyrean Path" and "The Cluster"). His first book, "Mary," was published in 1926. The story details a young émigré's longing for the love he left behind in Russia, the battle between what is memory and what is real, and the inevitable disappointment of facing both. The book received little initial attention. Nabokov working on "The Defense" at a hotel in Le Boulou, East Pyrenees, February 1929 That's not to say Nabokov was an unknown. He continued to write, publishing the novels "King, Queen, Knave" (1928), "The Defense" (1930), and "Glory" (1932) and the 1929 short story...

7. Интервью Набокова на английском языке. BBC-2, 1969 г.

Входимость: 2. Размер: 22кб.

Часть текста: Memory often presents a life broken into episodes, more or less perfectly recalled. Do you see any themes working through from one episode to another? Everyone can sort out convenient patterns of related themes in the past development of his life. Here again I had to provide pegs and echoes when furnishing my reception halls. Is the strongest tie between men this common captivity in time? Let us not generalize. The common captivity in time is felt differently by different people, and some people may not feel it at all. Generalizations are full of loopholes and traps. I know elderly men for whom "time" only means "timepiece." What distinguishes us from animals? Being aware of being aware of being. In other words, if I not only know that I am but also know that I know it, then I belong to the human species. All the rest follows-- the glory of thought, poetry, a vision of the universe. In that respect, the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape. The difference between an ape's memory and human memory is the difference between an ampersand and the British Museum...

8. Lolita. Part Two. Chapters 3 - 8

Входимость: 1. Размер: 54кб.

Часть текста: - 8 3 She had entered my world, umber and black Humberland, with rash curiosity; she surveyed it with a shrug of amused distaste; and it seemed to me now that she was ready to turn away from it with something akin to plain repulsion. Never did she vibrate under my touch, and a strident “what d’you think you are doing?” was all I got for my pains. To the wonderland I had to offer, my fool preferred the corniest movies, the most cloying fudge. To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she wouldinvariably, with icy precisionplump for the former. There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. Did I mention the name of that milk bar I visited a moment ago? It was, of all things, The Frigid Queen. Smiling a little sadly, I dubbed her My Frigid Princess. She did not see the wistful joke. Oh, d not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impressin that I did not manage to be happy. Readeer must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were,...

9. Комментарии к "Евгению Онегину" Александра Пушкина. Глава третья. Эпиграф, пункты I - IX

Входимость: 1. Размер: 71кб.

Часть текста: моей Татьяне]; вина ее лишь в том, что она любила [ср. „ЕО“, глава Третья, XXIV]. / Так пусть же ей простит и судьба!» По греческому мифу, Эхо, чахнувшая от любви к Нарциссу, который, в свою очередь, чах от любви к собственному отражению, высохла так, что остался лишь ее голос, слышимый в лесу, — почти та же история с Татьяной в главе Седьмой, XXVIII, когда она все время видит перед собой Онегина, перелистывая книги, которые он читал (глава Седьмая, XXII–XXIV). В школьном учебнике Пушкина — «Лицей, или Курс литературы древней и новой» (она была учебником и для Ламартина, сформировав его ужасный вкус, а также для Стендаля, признающегося в своем «Дневнике» 1804 г., что ему хотелось бы «делагарпизировать» свой стиль, — в чем он, наследник Вольтера и Лакло, так и не преуспел) — Лагарп (VIII, 252) приводит два вполне невинных отрывка из «Нарцисса», и первый из них открывается строкой, вынесенной в эпиграф, — Пушкину могла вспомниться та самая страница из Лагарпа. Хотя, вообще...

10. Комментарий к роману "Евгений Онегин". Приложение III. Заметки переводчика

Входимость: 1. Размер: 71кб.

Часть текста: невозможно на нищем рифмами английском языке), чудо было бы ни к чему, так как английское понятие о рифме не соответствует русскому. Если ЕО переводить — а не пересказывать дурными английскими стишками, — необходим перевод предельно точный, подстрочный, дословный, и этой точности я рад был все принести в жертву — «гладкость» (она от дьявола), изящество, идиоматическую ясность, число стоп в строке, рифму и даже в крайних случаях синтаксис. Одно, что сохранил я, — это ямб, ибо вскоре выяснились два обстоятельства: во-первых, что это небольшое ритмическое стеснение оказывается вовсе не помехой, а, напротив, служит незаменимым винтом для закрепления дословного смысла, а во-вторых, что каким-то образом неодинаковость длины строк превращается в элемент мелодии и как бы заменяет то звуковое разнообразие, которого все равно не дало бы столь убийственное для английского слуха правильное распределение мужских и женских рифм. Из комментариев, объясняющих содержание и форму ЕО , образовался том в тысячу с лишком страниц, и из него я привожу здесь несколько заметок в сокращенном виде. 1. Слов модных полный лексикон. Одна из задач переводчика — это выбор поэтического словаря. Ни словарь времен Мильтона, ни словарь времен Браунинга Пушкину не подходят. Суживая пределы, убеждаешься в том, что ЕО , в идеальном английском воплощении, ближе к общему духу XVIII в. (к духу Поупа, например, и его эпигона Байрона), чем, скажем, к лексикону Колриджа или Китса. Объясняется это, конечно, влиянием на английских поэтов XVIII в. французских принципов поэтики, среди коих главные: «хороший вкус», «здравый...

Поиск по творчеству и критикеCлово "TALENT"

Поиск по творчеству и критике
Cлово "TALENT"