Random House, Inc.
Автор Nabokov Vladimir

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Nabokov's first novel. A tale of youth, first love and nostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future relives his first love affair.

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A rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others.

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Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen - an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster - but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.

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A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian émigré who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.

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A comedy of desire, deception and denial played out against the background of the film world of 1930s Berlin.

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The story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing store, his cold middle-class wife, Martha, and their nephew, Franz. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, Martha longs for their nephew instead.

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Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian emigre living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.

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Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant, endlessly inventive imagination and pyrotechnical literary genius continue to astound in the stories The Return of Chorb, The Aurelian, Russian Spoken Here, Cloud, Castle, Lake, Mademoiselle O., A Forgotten Poet, and others; sections 1-10 of Lolita; and chapter 12 from Speak, Memory.

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The letters of the great writer to his wife gathered here for the first time chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Vera Slonim. She shared his delight in life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir's letters to Vera form a narrative arc that tells a half century long love story, one that is playful, romantic, pithy and memorable. At the same time, the letters tell us much about the man and the writer. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything animals, people, speech, the landscapes and cityscapes he encountered and learn of the poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays and translations on which he worked ceaselessly. This delicious volume contains twenty one photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters themselves and the puzzles and doodles Vladimir often sent to Vera.