Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
Vladimir Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of anti-Semitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik Revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins. The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next 18 years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym "Sirin" and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925, he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri. Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in English. His most notable works include Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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我对这本书中对“城市”的描绘印象极其深刻,它远不止是一个故事发生的背景板。作者仿佛为这座城市注入了生命,它有着自己的呼吸、自己的情绪和自己的记忆。街道的肌理、建筑的阴影、午夜时分空旷广场上回荡的回声,都被赋予了一种独特的、近乎哥特式的气质。这种环境的塑造,与人物内心的荒芜与迷失形成了完美的镜像关系。你会强烈地感觉到,人物的行为模式和最终的命运,在很大程度上是被这座城市无形的规则所钳制的。它不热情也不冷漠,它只是存在着,以一种令人不安的恒定性,见证着一切的发生与湮灭。这种将环境提升到与主角同等重要的地位的写作手法,让我联想到一些文学大师的作品,它展现了一种宏大叙事下的个体挣扎,那种“人在屋檐下不得不低头”的无力感,通过环境的压迫感被无限放大。
评分如果要用一个词来形容这本书带给我的整体感受,那可能是“挥之不去”的宿命感。它不像那些让人读完后拍案叫绝、转头就忘的作品,它像一根细而韧的丝线,在你放下书本后,依然缠绕着你的思绪。这种感觉并非来源于故事情节的惊悚,而是源于作者对“选择与后果”这一母题的深刻挖掘。每一个看似随意的决定,都被描绘成通往既定终点的无数个微小步骤中的一步。虽然故事发生在特定的时空背景下,但其中探讨的人类困境——关于欲望、欺骗和自我救赎——却是永恒的。读完之后,我甚至开始审视自己生活中的一些转折点,思考“如果当时做了不同的选择,现在又会是怎样一番光景”。这本书成功地将读者从单纯的旁观者,转化成了一种带有反思性的参与者,其后劲之大,足以让人回味良久。
评分这本书的封面设计简直是一场视觉的盛宴,那种深沉的靛蓝与一抹突兀的猩红形成了强烈的对比,仿佛在讲述一个关于秘密和危险的故事。初翻开书页,那种略带粗粝感的纸张摩擦声就让人沉浸其中,仿佛回到了那个故事发生年代的图书馆。叙事风格异常老练,作者似乎对人性的幽微之处有着近乎病态的洞察力,开篇并没有急于抛出情节的高潮,而是用一种近乎散文诗般的笔触,细腻地勾勒出人物的内心世界。每一个角色的动机都被剖析得淋漓尽致,即便是最微小的犹豫和最隐秘的欲望,都被描绘得栩栩如生。读到中期时,那种铺陈开来的氛围感达到了顶峰,你会感觉自己不是在阅读,而是在某个雾气弥漫的街角,亲眼目睹着一切的发生。特别是对于环境细节的描摹,简直达到了令人发指的程度,无论是老式留声机的嗡鸣,还是深夜里偶尔传来的钟声,都精准地敲击着读者的感官,让人呼吸都变得小心翼翼。这种沉浸式的体验,让人忍不住放慢速度,生怕错过任何一个微妙的暗示。它成功地营造了一种强烈的“在场感”,让你深陷其中,难以自拔。
评分这本书在叙事视角的切换上,展现出一种近乎炫技般的娴熟。它并非线性地推进,而是像一台老旧的电影放映机,在不同的时间点和不同人物的意识之间灵活跳跃。这种多重视角的构建,极大地丰富了故事的层次感。你以为你已经完全理解了某个角色的处境,但下一秒,通过另一个角色的眼睛重新审视时,所有的判断都会被颠覆。这使得阅读过程充满了解谜的乐趣,你必须不断地调整自己的立场和预设,才能拼凑出全貌。这种手法尤其适合探讨主题的复杂性,因为它避免了将是非简单化,而是展示了人性灰度地带的真实面貌。有那么几次,我甚至感觉自己像是站在一个舞台的侧面,看着光影交错下,演员们如何精湛地表演着各自的剧本,而真正的“真相”似乎永远藏在幕布的后面。这种不把话说透的艺术,高明至极。
评分老实说,这本书的节奏处理得极其精妙,它不像那些快餐式的通俗小说,上来就用爆炸性的事件吸引你,而是采取了一种慢炖的策略,让情感的张力在不知不觉中积累,直至某个临界点集中爆发。我特别欣赏作者处理对话的方式,那些看似平淡的日常交流中,往往暗藏着巨大的张力,每一次停顿、每一个眼神的闪躲,都比直白的控诉更具杀伤力。我甚至能想象出人物在对白时,空气中弥漫的紧张气息。更值得称道的是,作者对于象征手法的运用达到了炉火纯青的地步,许多场景和物件似乎都承担了超越其本身意义的重量。比如反复出现的某种特定花卉,或者一扇永远关不严的门,这些元素不断地在文本中回响,构成了一种潜意识层面的共鸣。读完一个章节后,我常常需要停下来,不是因为情节太复杂,而是因为那些潜藏的意象太丰富,需要时间去消化它们在整体结构中所扮演的角色。这种需要反复咀嚼的文本,才是真正经得起时间考验的好作品。
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