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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纳博科夫写这本书到底要告诉我们什么?是内容本身的意义还是形式带给来的新的尝试和美感?《我的名字叫红》里面也有个凶手,橄榄,蝴蝶,鹳鸟,是谁并不重要,只要知道谋杀是文化冲突造成的内涵就够了。同样,变态的(金伯特眼中的)格拉杜斯追杀逃亡的赞巴拉国王的故事并没什...
评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...
评分 评分(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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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
To the Shade: you are my spring of shadows. 不能免俗地尤爱诗的部分(只有在这里,华丽的虚幻与徒劳的真实才叮咣作响地合二为一?)恍然有初读锅匠般的艰苦,因着无可挑剔的文字多了许多乐趣。
评分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。
评分最伟大的小说!!!A Jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem!
评分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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