Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this idea[...]
A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.[...]
The story of an obsessive middle-aged scholar who pursues an exquisite nymphet.
An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passions for butterflies and his lost homeland. Written in t[...]
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterou[...]
Rouperu udalos pokazat, kakuju vazhnuju rol sygrala Amerika v zhizni i tvorchestve Nabokova, kak blagodarja «Lolite» izmenilas literaturnaja sudba pisatelja.? The New York TimesEto podrobnyj rasskaz o tom, kak Nabokov zhil v Amerike s 1940 po 1958 god, kak on prepodaval v universitetakh, professio[...]
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, whom he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?... Or is he all of these?[...]
"Dar" (1938) - poslednij russkij roman Vladimira Nabokova, kotoryj mozhet byt po pravu nazvan vershinoj russkojazychnogo perioda ego tvorchestva i odnim iz shedevrov russkoj literatury XX veka. Povestvuja o tvorcheskom stanovlenii molodogo pisatelja-emigranta Fedora Godunova-Cherdyntseva, eta glubok[...]
Polnoe sobranie russkikh i anglijskikh rasskazov krupnejshego pisatelja XX veka Vladimira Nabokova v Rossii izdastsja vpervye. Podgotovlennyj v 1995 godu synom pisatelja, Dmitriem Nabokovym, anglijskij tom korotkoj prozy Nabokova khorosho izvesten na Zapade. Odnako po-russki, na o¦nichem ne stesnen[...]
Povest "VOLSHEBNIK" Nabokov nazval "pervoj malenkoj pulsatsiej "Lolity"". Eta povest -predshestvennitsa znamenitogo romana - byla sozdana Nabokovym v 1939 godu na russkom jazyke, odnako uvidela svet znachitelno pozdnee. Avtor vspomnil o nej lish cherez 20 let, kogda razbiral arkhiv: "Teper, kogda sv[...]
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Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, whom he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?... Or is he all of these?[...]
Kniga predstavljaet soboj obshirnyj svod svidetelstv i mnenij o zhizni i tvorchestve vydajuschegosja russko-amerikanskogo pisatelja, sostavlennyj iz epistoljarnykh i dnevnikovykh fragmentov; vystroennye v khronologicheskom porjadke, oni ne tolko pozvoljajut prosledit protsess formirovanija pisatelsk[...]
Biografija Vladimira Nabokova, napisannaja Brajanom Bondom, povsemestno priznana samoj polnoj i dostovernoj iz vsekh suschestvujuschikh. Kniga okhvatyvaet period s 1940 po 1977-j- gody zhizni v Amerike i v Shvejtsarii, gde i zavershilsja zhiznennyj put pisatelja.[...]
Tsitata"V etoj chudesnoj, skrupuleznoj knige na primere Bunina i Nabokova rozhdaetsja matritsa iskrenne-falshivoj druzhby bolshikh russkikh pisatelej, odnoljubov svoej istiny, obrechennykh na odinochestvo".Viktor Erofeev, pisatelO chem knigaImena geniev russkoj slovesnosti Ivana Bunina i Vladimira N[...]
"Korol, dama, valet" (1928) - pervyj iz trekh romanov Vladimira Nabokova na "nemetskuju" temu, za kotorym nemnogo pozdnee posledovali "Kamera obskura" i "Otchajanie". V khitrospletenijakh ljubovno-kriminalnoj intrigi peretasovyvajutsja, slovno igralnye karty, sudby udachlivogo berlinskogo kommersant[...]
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, whom he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?... Or is he all of these?[...]