Nabokov

The Enchanter

Nabokov, 2009

Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. However, «The Enchanter» has an utterly different atmosphere, as time, place and even names remain a mystery. Nabokov transforms his protagonist's attempts to lull his twelve-year-old step-daughter into a state of 'enchantment' into a graceful, chilling fairytale. Подробнее

Invitation to a Beheading

Nabokov, 2008

Written in Berlin in 1934, «Invitation to a Beheading» contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures ...The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita ...But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair'. Подробнее

King, Queen, Knave

Nabokov, 2011

'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of «King, Queen, Knave». Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' — Nabokov darts a glance to the reader — 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there'. Подробнее

Speak, Memory

Nabokov, 2008

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections — of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers — on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art. Подробнее

Bend Sinister

Nabokov, 2008

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk — known as the 'Toad'. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk's activities and sees no threat in them. But the sinister machine which Paduk has set in motion may prove stronger than the individual, stronger even than the grotesque 'Toad' himself. Подробнее

Laughter in the Dark

Nabokov, 2008

Albinus — rich, married middle-aged and respectable — is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. She wants to be a film star, and when Albinus introduces her to the American movie producer Axel Rex, she sees her chance — and plotting, duplicity and tragedy ensue. Подробнее

Luzhin Defense

Nabokov, 2008

Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Подробнее

Gift

Nabokov, 2008

The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves. Подробнее

Real life of Sebastian Knight

Nabokov, 2008

Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and digs, Sebastian's erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever. Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth. Подробнее

Fight Club

Nabokov, 2008

Laisse-moi te parler de Tyler. Tyler dit: les choses que tu possedes finissent toujours par te posseder. C'est seulement apres avoir tout perdu que tu es libre de faire ce dont tu as envie. Le fight club t'offre cette liberte. Premiere regle du fight club: Tu ne parles pas du fight club. Deuxieme regle du fight club: Tu ne parles pas du fight club. Tyler dit que chercher a s'ameliorer, c'est rien que de la branlette. Tyler dit que l'autodestruction est sans doute la reponse. Metaphore acide et jubilatoire d'un monde au bord du chaos, perdu faute de revolution, «Fight Club» a ete porte a l'ecran en 1999 par David Fincher, le realisateur de Seven et Alien 3. Подробнее

Lolita (на английском языке)

Nabokov, 2008

Вниманию читателей предлагается полный неадаптированный текст известного романа Владимира Набокова «Лолита» (1955). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем. Подробнее

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