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[...]

The story of an obsessive middle-aged scholar who pursues an exquisite nymphet.

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[...]

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?[...]

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[...]

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[...]

"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[...]

Den midaldrende europæer Humbert Humberts ´forelsker´ sig i sin 12-årige amerikanske steddatter, Dolores Haze, kaldet Lolita. Emigranten Humbert har altid været besat af ´nymfetter´, og han gifter sig med moren til Lolita for at kunne fortsætte sommerfuglejagten på hende. [...]

Den midaldrende europæer Humbert Humberts´'forelsker´ sig i sin 12-årige amerikanske steddatter, Dolores Haze, kaldet Lolita. Emigranten Humbert har altid været besat af ´nymfetter´, og han gifter sig med moren til Lolita for at kunne fortsætte sommerfuglejagten på hende.  Da moren dør i [...]

Vladimir Nabokovs mangeårige virke som litteraturprofessor i USA afføde et helt lille forfatterskab i sig selv.

Nabokov havde det enestående fortrin som litteraturformidler, at han forenede et klart, akademisk intellekt med en dyb, digterisk indlevelse. Hans vidunderlige bog om Nikolaj Gog[...]