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
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.
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评分我们身边有一种男人非常静,像室内盆景那样的一种静。我在大学念书时,学校图书馆的复印室里就有一个。那是个微微秃头的中年男人,瘦高,脸面干净,在光线幽暗的室内独自摆弄一台轧纸机。 他的眼睛漆黑而清亮,散发出深谷里不名植株的湿润气。我知道,那些炽烈如火的女人,遇到...
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老实说,这本书一开始读起来并不轻松,它像是一团纠缠的线球,需要极大的耐心去梳理。叙事者那种近乎偏执的视角,让你时刻处于一种警惕和不安的状态中。他用一种极具诱惑力、甚至可以说是矫饰的腔调来陈述一切,让你不由自主地想去探究这背后隐藏的真相与谎言的界限。这本书成功地做到了让读者在道德上感到极度不适的同时,又在文学技艺上不得不为其折服。它探讨了欲望的本质、个体的自由边界,以及艺术与道德之间的永恒拉锯。我特别注意到作者对细节的执着,比如对某个地点的反复描绘,对某种特定意象的反复引用,这些都像是在构建一个封闭的、只有叙述者才能完全理解的符号系统。读完之后,那种挥之不去的感觉,不是简单的“喜欢”或“不喜欢”,而是一种被卷入某种复杂情绪旋涡的后劲。它挑战的不是你的智力,而是你对人性复杂性的接受度。
评分这本书的结构设计堪称精妙,它不像传统小说那样按部就班,而更像是一系列碎片化的记忆和意识流的拼接。作者高超的运用了反讽,使得读者在接收信息时必须时刻保持清醒的头脑,去分辨哪些是叙述者自我美化的表演,哪些是事件的真实骨架。这种叙事上的双重性,构成了阅读过程中的主要张力。我发现自己经常会代入到其他人物的视角去审视叙述者,这本身就是一种非常有趣的阅读体验——作者巧妙地利用了你自身的道德框架来反制叙述者的引导。而且,书中的旅行场景描写,简直是教科书级别的示范,无论是异国的风情还是旅途中的沉闷,都被刻画得入木三分,让人仿佛真的跟随主人公踏上了那段漫长而充满隐喻的旅程。这不仅仅是一部小说,更像是一份对特定时代、特定环境下,某种极端心理状态的深度记录。
评分这部作品的文字本身就带着一种难以言喻的魔力,仿佛每一句话都经过了精心的雕琢,却又在不经意间流淌出最原始的情感。作者的笔触极其细腻,他对环境的描摹,对人物内心活动的刻画,都达到了令人咋舌的深度。阅读过程中,我常常需要停下来,细细品味那些蕴含着多重意义的段落。它不仅仅是在讲述一个故事,更像是在构建一个独立于现实世界的,充满了特定光影和气息的微观宇宙。书中的叙述者,他的声音是如此独特而富有穿透力,你几乎能感受到他思维的每一次跳跃、每一次挣扎。这种叙事上的高度技巧性,使得即便是平淡的场景,也被赋予了一种近乎神话般的色彩。我尤其欣赏作者在处理时间感上的手法,时间在书中时而拉伸,时而压缩,完美地契合了主人公主观体验的起伏。对于那些追求文学深度和语言艺术的读者来说,这本书无疑是一座值得反复探访的宝库,每一次重读,都会有新的层次和感悟浮现。
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评分这本书给我最大的震撼,来源于它那种近乎冷酷的自我认知。叙述者并非一个传统意义上的“好人”,但他却以一种极其坦诚(尽管可能带有欺骗性)的方式将自己的内心世界剖开给我们看。阅读过程中,我感觉自己像是闯入了一个私人日记,看到了最深处、最不愿被外界触碰的角落。作者对心理状态的捕捉极为精准,那种由迷恋、逃避和自我辩护交织而成的复杂情绪,被描绘得丝丝入扣。这种极端的个人主义叙事,使得整部作品的基调显得非常独特和孤立。它不是为了取悦大众,而是为了完整地呈现一个特定心智的运行轨迹。这种对内心世界的彻底挖掘,让这部作品超越了单纯的故事性,上升到了一种对人类经验复杂性的哲学探讨。读完后,我需要时间来整理自己的情绪,因为它在精神上确实是一次高强度的体验。
评分买这本书的时候,店员说她很多年读过。
评分Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins! 第一人称不可靠叙述的完美典范! 谁不会可怜这个不可靠的叙述者呢?再退一步,谁不会喜欢这个妖精一样的Lolita呢?再退一步,谁不会喜欢这个充满隐喻、可以肆意解读的故事呢?再退一步,就算都不喜欢,谁不会折服于这样一次美妙的wordplay带来的禁忌体验呢...
评分买这本书的时候,店员说她很多年读过。
评分Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins! 第一人称不可靠叙述的完美典范! 谁不会可怜这个不可靠的叙述者呢?再退一步,谁不会喜欢这个妖精一样的Lolita呢?再退一步,谁不会喜欢这个充满隐喻、可以肆意解读的故事呢?再退一步,就算都不喜欢,谁不会折服于这样一次美妙的wordplay带来的禁忌体验呢...
评分Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins! 第一人称不可靠叙述的完美典范! 谁不会可怜这个不可靠的叙述者呢?再退一步,谁不会喜欢这个妖精一样的Lolita呢?再退一步,谁不会喜欢这个充满隐喻、可以肆意解读的故事呢?再退一步,就算都不喜欢,谁不会折服于这样一次美妙的wordplay带来的禁忌体验呢...
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