作者：VladimirNabokov
出版社：VintageInternational
副标题：AnAutobiographyRevisited
出版年：1989-8-28
页数：336
定价：USD16.00
装帧：Paperback
丛书： VintageInternational：VladimirNabokov
ISBN：9780679723394
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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Vladimir 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 anti-Semitism 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 18 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. His most notable works include 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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Incredibly beautiful. Such a sentimental, arrogant and talented writer.
好书看几眼就知道是好书。“假设，你到了人生旅途的终点，在那传说里电光火石的一瞬，漫长的一生以高度浓缩的方式铺展在你的眼前，一分钟就是百年。在那样的时刻，我想我们终将明白，蜕去物质的空壳，人所拥有的，唯有回忆而已。它们像焰火，虽然注定要归于寂灭，但是在意识的夜景上，它喷薄而出的那一刻的亮度，几乎就是整个生命的亮度。 ”
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读得头脑发胀而无怨无悔
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