Vladimir Vladimirovich 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 antisemitism 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 eighteen 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. In his afterword to Lolita he claimed: "My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way." [p. 317] Yet Nabokov's American period saw the creation of what are arguably his greatest works, 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.
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.
Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
With an Introduction by Martin Amis
小的时候,对人的划分很简单,只有好和坏。慢慢的,开始明白,人是很复杂的,不是一个简单的好字或者坏字所能够评价的。可是,到现在,真的了解了复杂,反而怀念那种简单,“好人”是一个多么让人感动的词。 洛丽塔是一本书,也是一首歌,还是一部电影,可这一切都比不...
评分看这本书之前我仔细考虑过是看于晓丹还是主万的译本,最后看的是于晓丹的。书的开始节奏有些慢,大量的注解和复杂的句子让我读着相当难受,但是越读到后面,就越来越有感觉.... 我没看这本书之前也跟很多人想的一样,这里面肯定有很多性描写,而且可能尺度很大,看完后才...
评分《洛丽塔》,主万译,上海译文出版社2006年1月 亨伯特先生的语言战争 那是两个文人之间的一场默默无声、软弱无力、没有任何章法的扭打,其中一个被毒品完全弄垮了身体,另一个患有心脏病,而且杜松子酒喝得太多。 ——《洛...
评分《洛丽塔》是纳博科夫流传最广、争议最多的作品,也是研究者最为青睐的作品。既是作家个人艺术风格的集中体现,也是后现代主义文学名闻遐迩的经典。 小说包含“序言”和“正文”两部分。 正文部分以第一人称叙述。“我”自称为“亨伯特·亨伯特”,1910年出生于巴黎,虽然母...
评分许多沉浸在爱中的女人无法判断她爱的那个人是否真的爱她,在此,作为一个有经历的男人我可以透露一些秘诀,条件是有人能把相应的秘诀告诉我:)。一个男人是否爱你,完全可以从他大把大把地为你花钱时有没有皱过眉头看出来,也可以从他是否为了你心甘情愿地拿他的生命去进行一...
such a wonderful book about art and creation. the language is a fascinating labyrinth, sometimes surreal.
评分这本书的用词让当年在背SAT单词的我都极度的无语。。。
评分Nabokov is a master of English vocab, and he is not even a native speaker.
评分最后三章看的泪目了。有没有一种这样绝望和有罪的迷恋。Lolita站在门口微笑着说No的时候我的心都碎了。达令,你知不知道自己曾经是被迷恋和珍惜的,你知不知道你现在仍然是被珍惜和迷恋的。尽管这是一种无望,错误和有罪的爱。你本来应该被妥善珍藏,成为一个普通的女孩。而不是被这样自私的迷恋销毁和侵蚀。那种悔恨和悲伤写的太美了。/以及看完这本好想开车漫游美国- -
评分以前读的时候因为词汇太难放弃了,这遍读还好。重读的原因大概是受纳博科夫回忆这本书的语气所吸引,他总是那么亲切的称呼洛丽塔为“我的小仙女”,像是对待心爱的蝴蝶标本。比小时候读的时候懂了很多,亨伯特对读者的引诱,叙述被压抑的一面,在同情和罪恶之间摇摆。新发现是这本书里的环境描写特别好,有很浓重的拼贴感,但又笼罩在意识和无意识、辩解和天真的角力之下。但最大的乐趣大概是看见亨伯特的法语就想象他的腔调小声把它读出来。
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