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Часть текста: zapiski , nos. 40-42, and finally in book form later that same year by Slovo in Berlin. An English version, translated by the author in collaboration with Michael Scammell, was published in 1964 by Putnam as The Defenestration . This edition is true to the original with the exception of two references to Zembla that the author, or the translator, or an unnamed editor, or an inattentive typesetter, chose to remove, or happened to remove inadvertantly, from Chapters Two and Five. Zashchita Luzhina is a book about chess, "a game of skill played by two persons, each having sixteen pieces to move in different ways, on a board divided into 64 squares, alternately light and dark." (I owe this pithy definition to Webster.) If the reader does not know, or has forgotten, the rules to the game, he or she is invited to consult one of the many pamphlets devoted to chess that must surely exist in every language written and read in the civilized world. The word chess derives from Middle English ches or chesse , thence from Old French eschec (francophones will hear here an echo of the French word for failure, a not irrelevant observation for the case under discussion), or echac ,2 thence from Persian shah , a king, the most important piece in the game. Luzhin, the eponymous hero, is our king: He remembered especially the time when he was quite small, playing all alone, and wrapping himself up in the tiger rug, to represent, rather forlornly, a king (p. 70, 4)....

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Часть текста: 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...

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Часть текста: преподавать курс, именуемый „Европейская литература“ (XIX и XX вв.). Каких английских писателей (романы или новеллы) ты бы для него предложил? Мне нужны по крайней мере двое. Буду всей тяжестью опираться на русских, по крайней мере на пятерых широкоплечих русских, и, наверное, возьму Кафку, Флобера и Пруста, дабы дать представление о западноевропейской литературе». Уилсон порекомендовал Остин и Диккенса в качестве безусловно величайших английских писателей, наряду с ирландцем Джойсом. Набоков отреагировал со столь распространенным у русских презрением к женщинам-писательницам: «Я недолюбливаю Джейн, и, собственно, предубежден против всех пишущих дам. Они в другом классе. Никогда не видел ничего хорошего в „Гордости и гордыне“». Он думал вместо этого взять «Доктора Джекилла и мистера Хайда». К середине мая он прочел половину «Холодного дома» («великая вещь»), тщательно конспектируя, и в конце концов решил все-таки последовать совету Уилсона и включить в курс «Мэнсфилд-парк» 1 . Несмотря на стабильное положение в Корнельском университете (в отличие от Уэлсли), Набоков зарабатывал там совсем немного — 5000 долларов в год. С 1947 года, главу за главой публикуя в «Нью-Йоркере» свою автобиографию, он регулярно получал гонорары, что практически удваивало его доход. Теперь ему предстояло готовить новый лекционный курс для большой аудитории, разбирать со студентами почти незнакомые ему книги, и практически не оставалось времени писать для «Нью-Йоркера». В любом случае книгу, которую он собирался создать, вряд ли удалось бы опубликовать в периодическом издании — тем более в таком...

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Часть текста: extensive travels all over the States. To any other type of tourist accommodation I soon grew to prefer the Functional Motelclean, neat, safe nooks, ideal places for sleep, argument, reconciliation, insatiable illicit love. At first, in my dread of arousing suspicion, I would eagerly pay for both sections of one double unit, each containing a double bed. I wondered what type of foursome this arrangement was even intended for, since only a pharisaic parody of privacy could be attained by means of the incomplete partition dividing the cabin or room into two communicating love nests. By and by, the very possibilities that such honest promiscuity suggested (two young couples merrily swapping mates or a child shamming sleep to earwitness primal sonorities) made me bolder, and every now and then I would take a bed-and-cot or twin-bed cabin, a prison cell or paradise, with yellow window shades pulled down to create a morning illusion of Venice and sunshine when actually it was Pennsylvania and rain. We came to know nous connmes, to use a Flaubertian intonationthe stone cottages under enormous Chateaubriandesque trees, the brick unit, the adobe unit, the stucco court, on what the Tour Book of the Automobile Association describes as “shaded” or “spacious” or “landscaped” grounds. The log kind, finished in knotty pine, reminded Lo, by its golden-brown glaze, of friend-chicken bones. We held in contempt the plain whitewashed clapboard Kabins, with their faint sewerish smell or some other gloomy self-conscious stench and nothing to boast of (except “good beds”), and an unsmiling landlady always prepared to have her gift (“…well, I could give you…”) turned down. Nous connmes (this is royal fun) the...

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Часть текста: 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, beyond happiness. For there is no other bliss on earth comparable to that of fondling a nymphet. It is hors concours , that bliss, it belongs to another class, another plane of sensitivity. Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradisea paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flamesbut still a paradise. The able psychiatrist who studies my caseand whom by now Dr. Humbert has plunged, I trust, into a state of leporine fascinationis no doubt anxious to have me take Lolita to the seaside and have me find there, at last, the “gratification” of a lifetime urge, and release from the “subconscious” obsession of an incomplete childhood romance with the initial little Miss Lee. Well, comrade, let me tell you that I did look for a beach, though I also have to confess that by the time we reached its mirage of gray water, so many ...

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Часть текста: was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns. 2 I was born in 1910, in Paris. My father was a gentle, easy-going person, a salad of racial genes: a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent, with a dash of the Danube in his veins. I am going to pass around in a minute some lovely, glossy-blue picture-postcards. He owned a luxurious hotel on the Riviera. His father and two grandfathers had sold wine, jewels and silk, respectively. At thirty he married an English girl, daughter of Jerome Dunn, the alpinist, and granddaughter of two Dorset parsons, experts in obscure subjectspaleopedology and Aeolian harps,...

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Часть текста: Набоков: Американские годы», а также все посвященные набоковским произведениям критические работы, на которые я ссылаюсь. В Разделе I перечислены архивные, библиотечные и музейные собрания, к которым я обращался; в Разделе II — периодические издания, использованные в ходе работы; в Разделе III — книги и статьи, содержащие информацию о членах семьи Набокова, в особенности о его отце, Владимире Дмитриевиче Набокове, и деде, Дмитрии Николаевиче Набокове; в Разделе IV перечислены произведения Набокова; в Разделе V — книги и статьи, имеющие касательство к биографии Набокова либо цитировавшиеся при анализе его произведений. Дефинитивной библиографией произведений Набокова является работа Майкла Джулиара «Владимир Набоков: описательная библиография» (Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1986), к которой журнал «The Nabokovian» ежегодно публикует приложения и дополнения. В том же журнале печатаются дополнения к куда менее подробной библиографии Сэмюэля Шумана, посвященной набоковедческой критике (S. Schuman. Vladimir Nabokov: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979). Новая аннотированная библиография набоковедческой критики Стивена Яна Паркера должна в ближайшее время выйти в издательстве «Гарланд». I. Архивы, библиотеки, музейные собрания Архив Владимира Набокова Ранние (1915–1928) и поздние (с середины 1960-х) рукописи ВН; основное собрание его писем, дневников и т. д. (с 1919); документы ВДН (1890–1922). Частное собрание. В 1991 этот материал вошел в состав собрания Берга Нью-Йоркской публичной библиотеки. Доступ ограничен. Архив колледжа Уэлсли Отчеты администрации, личное дело ВН, устные интервью с коллегами Набокова. ...

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Часть текста: Набокова на английском языке. Time, 1969 г. Time [1969] Before coming to Montreux in mid-March, 1969, Time reporters Martha Duffy and R. Z. Sheppard sent me a score of questions by telex. The answers, neatly typed out, were awaiting them when they arrived, whereupon they added a dozen more, of which I answered seven. Some of the lot were quoted in the May 23, 1969, issue-- the one with my face on the cover. There seem to be similarities in the rhythm and tone of Speak, Memory and Ada, and in the way you and Van retrieve the past in images. Do you both work along similar lines? The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. It is a familiar embarrassment that I face with very faint qualms, particularly since I am not really aware of any special similarities-- just as one is not aware of sharing mannerisms with a detestable kinsman. I loathe Van Veen. The following two quotations seem closely related: "I...

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Часть текста: 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 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 paragraph of my Ada: the opening sentence of Anna...

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Часть текста: Ardis, 1983. — Пер. В. Набоковой. Набоков В. Вершина // Набоков В. Стихотворения. СПб.: Академический проект, 2002. С. 221. Набоков В. Дар // Набоков В. Собр. соч. русского периода: В 5 т. СПб.: Симпозиум, 2000. Т. 4. С. 188–541. Набоков В. Другие берега // Набоков В. Собр. соч. русского периода: В 5 т. СПб.: Симпозиум, 2000. Т. 5. С. 140–335. Набоков В. Интервью Альфреду Аппелю, август 1970 // Набоков о Набокове и прочем: Интервью, рецензии, эссе. М.: Независимая Газета, 2002. С. 293–311. — Пер. А. Г. Николаевской. Набоков В. Интервью Альфреду Аппелю, сентябрь 1966 // Набоков о Набокове и прочем: Интервью, рецензии, эссе. М.: Независимая Газета, 2002. С. 177–209. — Пер. М. Мейлаха и М. Дадяна. Набоков В. Интервью Олвину Тоффлеру, март 1963 // Набоков о Набокове и прочем: Интервью, рецензии, эссе. М.: Независимая Газета, 2002. С. 129–157. — Пер. Д. Федосова. Набоков В. Искусство литературы и здравый смысл // Набоков В. Лекции по зарубежной литературе. М.: Независимая Газета, 1998. С. 465–476. — Пер. Г. Дашевского. Набоков В. Комментарий к роману А. С. Пушкина «Евгений Онегин». СПб.: Искусство — СПб; Набоковский фонд, 1998. — Пер. Е. М. Видре, Г. М. Дашевского, Н. М. Жутовской и др. Набоков В. Нежить // Набоков В. Собр. соч. русского периода: В 5 т. СПб.: Симпозиум, 1999. Т. 1. С. 29–31. Набоков В. Николай Гоголь (1809–1852) // Набоков В. Лекции по русской литературе. М.: Независимая Газета, 1996. С. 29–134. — Пер. Е. Голышевой под ред. В. Голышева. Набоков В. Лекции по зарубежной литературе. М.: Независимая Газета, 1998. — Пер. И. М. Бернштейн, В. П. Голышева, Г. М. Дашевского и др. Набоков В. Лолита // Набоков В. Собр. соч. американского...

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