Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans — and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but his son, Dmitri, did not oblige, although neither did he allow the work to be published — until now. «The Original of Laura» is about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero — sullen, gawky Hugh Person — to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later — following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: «A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do.» Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the recluse genius John Shade: an adoring foreward and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote: a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 — 30 years after its original publication — Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to…
Скачать книгу (размер 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 110) Аннотация: Dans les montagnes enneigées de la Suisse, Kern, un étudiant hanté par la mort, éprouve une passion impossible pour l'insaisissable Isabelle. Lorsque Simpson voit le portrait de la Vénitienne peint par Sebastiano del Piombo, il est fasciné et en tombe éperdument amoureux. Le tableau exerce sur lui une telle attirance qu'il ne peut s'empêcher de revenir le…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: «Lolita, lumière de ma vie, feu de mes reins. Mon péché, mon âme. Lo-lii-ta: le bout de la langue fait trois petits pas le long du palais pour taper, à trois reprises, contre les dents. Lo. Lii. Ta. Le matin, elle était Lo, simplement Lo, avec son mètre quarante-six et son unique chaussette. Elle était Lola en pantalon. Elle était Dolly à…
Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: Alors que le taxi qui l'a amené de Trux à Witt s'arrête devant l'hôtel Ascot, Hugh Person, éditeur américain entre deux âges, évoque ses trois séjours précédents dans cette minable station des Alpes suisses. Le premier, dix-huit ans plus tôt, a été marqué par deux événements tout aussi lugubres dans son souvenir:…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 263 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 249) Аннотация: «Ce recueil réunit les premiers textes de prose écrits en anglais par l'auteur de Lolita mais également des nouvelles russes restées inédites, ou bien n'ayant pas refait surface depuis leur publication au début des années vingt, dans différents journaux émigrés de Berlin. Dans ces nouvelles, il flotte un air de nostalgie et haute poésie, et…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The story of an obsessive middle-aged scholar who pursues an exquisite nymphet.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «The Enchanter» is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A vision of a bizarre and irrational world where Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for an imaginery crime in an unnamed dream country.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Le Guetteur, écrit à Berlin en 1930, se déroule en un temps où, par suite des bouleversements de la révolution, les frontières sociales sont particulièrement incertaines et les masques encore mal assujettis dans la petite société de l'émigration russe. L'évocation de ce milieu pittoresque n'est toutefois pas le seul sujet du livre. Ce serait…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Cincinnatus C, condamné à mort, est détenu dans une prison extraordinaire, nantie d'un personnel non moins bizarre. Importuné par d'étranges visiteurs qui viennent le tourmenter dans son cachot, chacun à sa manière, rongé par la peur du supplice dont il ignore la date, le détenu ne cesse de ruminer son cas: «Il n'est pas comme les autres: il reste…