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.
Book Description
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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評分花了差不多两个星期的时间才断断续续的看完《微暗的火》。毫无疑问的是,这本小说绝对是小说史上无法抹掉的一页。我相信,不但在五十年前,即使是现在,甚至在几百年后,这本小说都是不朽的。(请注意,我用不朽来形容《微暗的火》绝不是以其受欢迎的程度言,而是因其独创性。...
評分读了几本纳氏的书,《洛丽塔》、《普宁》...还不错,但《自斩首之邀》开始,我就有一个个感觉,那就是老觉着纳氏看着我们为他的作品头痛而暗自偷笑——“你们费尽心思地想找寻些什么?那只是我丢弃的一团乱麻。”
評分我是那惨遭杀害的连雀的阴影 凶手是窗玻璃那片虚假的碧空; 《微暗的火》的长诗部分华丽地开始,第一行的最后两个字——阴影(Shade),就是小说的其中一位主人公,谢德。连雀撞上窗玻璃,倒在地上。这是否暗示着谢德之后的命运,那倒也无所谓了。谢德(Shade)是太阳直射下来照出...
希望能在閱覽室囫圇看一遍 nabokov的小說生詞太多瞭
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评分斷斷續續的用瞭一年時間纔看完。。。#真的不能用一段什麼生命之光欲念之火就能錶示看過nabokov啊
评分最偉大的小說!!!A Jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem!
评分斷斷續續的用瞭一年時間纔看完。。。#真的不能用一段什麼生命之光欲念之火就能錶示看過nabokov啊
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