Pale Fire

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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.

出版者:Penguin Books
作者:Vladimir Nabokov
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页数:272
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出版时间:2000-08-31
价格:USD 16.50
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780141185262
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The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure.

An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature–perfect tragicomic balance.

With an Introduction by Richard Rorty

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(参见172行注释) 这样的括号内容让自己忍不住笑了一下,只是引用一下谢德的一句话(p171)。 为什么我能读进去?经常怀疑自己对晦涩的的作品的阅读欣赏,到底是否“读懂”了。什么叫做“读懂”?这个词也许本身也没什么意义。在这样的懵懂中,我却愿意说,很好看,也值得看。...

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【读品】罗豫/文 “微暗的火”,典出莎翁悲剧《雅典的泰门》,意指月亮偷窃太阳的光辉,反射出微暗的光芒。如今,各种打着文学研究旗号的藤藤蔓蔓,攀附在文学大树上借光借景,已不是什么稀罕事了。与其直接挑战珠峰,中国当下的学术工匠似乎更喜欢“抢占山头”:你去搞别人没...  

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《微暗的火》,这部文学史上的奇异之作。这部小说由前言、一首四个篇章的长诗、评注和索引构成。著名诗人约翰·谢德被一名罪犯误认自己是判他入狱的法官枪杀,而谢德的邻居——教授查尔斯·金波特真实身份则是俄罗斯以北的白色国度赞巴拉的流亡国王,他一直希望谢德将自己关...  

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Very hard-to-read post-modernist novel. Incredibly inspiring

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断断续续的用了一年时间才看完。。。#真的不能用一段什么生命之光欲念之火就能表示看过nabokov啊

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这个叙述者真是学渣我看过中最讨厌的了。commentary部分一开始会给我有点分裂的感觉,再想想就觉得按Kinbote的人设来说,这么分裂就对了。其实说到底,不是很喜欢,但是就是觉得蛮不错的欸。

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这个叙述者真是学渣我看过中最讨厌的了。commentary部分一开始会给我有点分裂的感觉,再想想就觉得按Kinbote的人设来说,这么分裂就对了。其实说到底,不是很喜欢,但是就是觉得蛮不错的欸。

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"Why do you have two copies of this book?" "Which one? Oh Pale Fire... Pale Fire is not a book."

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