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 The book also includes previously unpublished records of Nabokov's dreams from his letters and notebooks and shows important connections between his fiction and private writings on dreams and time.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: Lance ISBN: 0241339529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241339527 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry - all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.
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: Glory ISBN: 0141188510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141188515 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.
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: Pale Fire ISBN: 0141185260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141185262 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9620.00 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: Ada or Ardor ISBN: 0141181877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141181875 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 10570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle`s country estate, in a `dream-bright` America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Speak, Memory ISBN: 0141183225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141183220 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents 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.
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: Think, write, speak ISBN: 0141398388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141398389 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: 'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977. Introduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov's literary orbit.
Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, playful, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated.
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.
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: 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: Lolita ISBN: 0241638437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241638439 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Nabokov`s Dozen ISBN: 024130248X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241302484 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Thirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners.
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, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again.
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Название: Bend Sinister ISBN: 0141185767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141185767 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть в Астана (Нур-Султан) Описание: 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.
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