Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context
On October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions he found in An Experiment with Time by the British philosopher John Dunne. The purpose was to test the theory that time may go in reverse, so that, paradoxically, a later event may generate an earlier dream. The result--published here for the first time--is a fascinating diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams (and subsequent daytime episodes) on 118 index cards, which afford a rare glimpse of the artist at his most private. More than an odd biographical footnote, the experiment grew out of Nabokov's passionate interest in the mystery of time, which influenced many of his novels, including the late masterpiece Ada.
Insomniac Dreams, edited by leading Nabokov authority Gennady Barabtarlo, presents the text of Nabokov's dream experiment, illustrated with a selection of his original index cards, and provides rich annotations and analysis that put them in the context of his life and writings. The book also includes previously unpublished records of Nabokov's dreams from his letters and notebooks and shows important connections between his fiction and private writings on dreams and time.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: The Luzhin Defense ISBN: 0141185988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141185989 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Despair ISBN: 014118454X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141184548 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening `split` in Hermann`s nature.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Collected Poems ISBN: 0141192267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141192260 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Features a collection of Nabokov`s poems span the decades of his career, from `Music`, written in 1914, to the short, playful `To Vera`, composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and love.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Invitation to a Beheading ISBN: 0141185600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141185606 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Mary ISBN: 0141191473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141191478 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Lolita ISBN: 0241953243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241953242 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady`s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he`ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? This is a silver-tongued poet or a pervert?
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Lolita ISBN: 014102349X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141023496 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Humbert 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?
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Pale Fire ISBN: 0141185260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141185262 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade`s editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the `Great Beaver`, Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Pnin ISBN: 0241638429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241638422 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Laughter in the dark ISBN: 0141186526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141186528 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: 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.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Lolita ISBN: 0241638437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241638439 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Pale Fire ISBN: 0679723420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679723424 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: 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.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Nabokov`s Dozen ISBN: 0241630886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241630884 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen.
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, these stories sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Revenge ISBN: 0241747007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241747001 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 5270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание:
‘And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!’
A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here enchants and enraptures us, only to gleefully confound our expectations.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Collected Stories ISBN: 0141183454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141183459 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
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