Владимир
Владимирович Набоков
США, 23.4.1899 - 2.7.1977
Прозаик, поэт, драматург,
литературный критик, классик отечественной литературы, которого иногда по недоразумению именуют "американским писателем русского происхождения".
Владимир
Владимирович Набоков родился 23 апреля 1899 года в столице Российской империи
Санкт-Петербурге в знатной и богатой семье. В насыщенном событиями 1917 году его
отец недолгое время входил в число министров правительства Керенского, а когда
к властив стране пришли большевики, Набоковы были вынуждены эмигрировать. В 1919
году Владимир поступил в Кембриджский университет и окончил его в 1922 году. В
марте того же года в Берлине во время покушения на главу партии кадетов Павла
Милюкова погиб отец Набокова, заслонивший Милюкова от пули террориста-монархиста.
Двадцатые-тридцатые
годы Набоков провел в Берлине, потом жил в Париже, в 1940 году перебрался в США.
Блестящий ум и превосходное чувство юмора позволили Набокову стать отличным писателем.
Характерной особенностью его произведений были не столько живость образов, идей
и закрученность сюжета, сколько виртуозное владение английским - языком для него
не родным.
Владимир Набоков опубликовал множество романов, из которых наибольшую
известность получили написанные на русском языке "Машенька", "Камера
обскура", "Дар", а из созданных на английском - "Лолита",
"Пнин" и книга мемуаров "Другие берега". Кроме того, писатель
перевел на английский язык "Слово о полку Игореве" и "Евгения Онегина".
В
1961 году он вместе с женой обосновался в Швейцарии. Скончался Владимир Набоков
2 июля 1977 года в возрасте 78 лет.
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Владимир
Набоков
Pnin
Мягкая
обложка (2000)
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Издательство:
Penguin, 2000 г.
Мягкая обложка, 176 стр.
ISBN 978-0-14-118375-6
Язык:
Английский
Nabokov's comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress
of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on
a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions,
Pnin does halting battle with American life and language. But in this moving,
amusing story of a seemingly born loser at odds with the New World, there is all
the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrevocably severed from its past.
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Владимир
Набоков
Lolita
Мягкая
обложка (2000)
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Издательство:
Penguin Books, 2000 г.
Мягкая обложка, 336 стр.
ISBN 978-0-141-18253-7
Язык:
Английский
Цена
511 руб
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes
obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and
then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.
This seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which
is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.
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Vladimir
Nabokov
Ada
or Ardor
Мягкая обложка (2000)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
Penguin Books, 2000 г.
Мягкая обложка, 510 стр.
ISBN 0141181877
Язык:
Английский
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, "Ada
or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" - Nabokov's other great love story - offers
even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows
Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his uncle's country estate, in
a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, Nabokov's 'longest,
richest, most ambitious novel' also becomes, as Brian Boyd says, a great many
other things: 'myth, fairy tale, Utopian idyll, family chronicle, personal memoir,
historical romance, erotic catalogue ... picture gallery and filmic folly'.
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Vladimir
Nabokov
The
Annotated Lolita
Мягкая обложка (1991)
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Издательство:
Penguin Books, 1991 г.
Мягкая обложка, 544 стр.
ISBN 978-0-141-18504-0,
0-141-18504-X
Язык: Английский
When "Lolita" was first published
in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original
prose writers of the twentieth century.
This annotated edition, a revised and
considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual
riches of "Lolita", illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing
how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides
fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a
delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared
in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by
him during the final years of his life.
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Vladimir
Nabokov
Ada,
or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Мягкая обложка (1990)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
Vintage, 1990 г.
Мягкая обложка, 624 стр.
ISBN 0679725229
Цена
916
руб
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is
one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career
as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also
at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody
of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.
Ada, or Ardor is no less
than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.
This is the first
American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by
the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
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Nabokov
Bend
Sinister
Мягкая обложка (2007)
Цена
845 руб
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
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Vladimir
Nabokov
Glory
Подвиг
Мягкая
обложка (1991)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Цена
775
руб
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language:
Russian
Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old
Russian emigre of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry
him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love,
he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project" - an illegal attempt to
re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds
- but at a terrible cost.
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Nabokov
Speak,
Memory
Мягкая обложка (2007)
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Vladimir
Nabokov
The
Eye
Соглядатай
Мягкая обложка (1990)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Nabokov's
fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly
refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's
protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian emigree;
living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous
husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.
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Владимир
Набоков
Laughter
in the Dark
Мягкая обложка (2006)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2006 г.
Мягкая обложка, 308 стр.
ISBN
0811216748
Язык: Английский
A reissue of the classic novel from the author
of Lolita which brilliantly portrays one man's ruin through love and betrayal.
"Once
upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich,
respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress;
he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir
Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; and this, the author tells us, is the whole story—except
that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling skill and irony, and
brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling, original novel of folly and destruction.
Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov
creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his
own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for
her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others.
Published
first in Russian as Kamera Obskura in 1932, this book appeared in Nabokov's own
English translation six years later. This New Directions edition, based on the
text as Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker Prize-winner
John Banville.
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Vladimir
Nabokov
The
Defense
Мягкая обложка (1990)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
Vintage, 1990 г.
Мягкая обложка, 272 стр.
ISBN 0679727221
Язык: Английский
Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness.
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen-an enigma
to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess
as a refuge rom the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and
he rises to the rank of grandmaster-but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind,
the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls
apart during a crucial hampionship match, when the intricate defense he has devised
withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.
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Vladimir
Nabokov
Pale
Fire
Мягкая обложка (1989)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
Vintage, 1989 г.
Мягкая обложка, 320 стр.
ISBN 0679723420
In "Pale
Fire" Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem
by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's
self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary
idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
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Vladimir
Nabokov
Mary
Машенька
Мягкая
обложка (1989)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Nabokov's
first novel. A tale of youth, first love and nostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house,
a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future relives his first
love affair.