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Аноним18 августа 2015 г.Frustration suddenly replaced by joy at the generosity of life: that is the pattern of The Gift.
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After five years' research and writing—and time "off" for another novel, two translations, a play, eleven stories and a small-scale autobiography—he completed The Gift in January 1938.
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CHAPTER 14
The Defense (Zashchita Luzhina)IN THE DEFENSE, his first masterpiece, Nabokov perfected the surface of his art and at the same time discovered how to plumb its depths.
436 - Аноним16 июня 2015 г.
After personality and time comes the third constraint upon consciousness that Nabokov defines, unsettles us into noticing, and tries to transcend: the closed circle of mortal knowledge.
Throughout his novels he undermines the comfortable solidity books usually seek. Something out of kilter here or there suggests that the worlds we have immersed ourselves in as if they were real are only two-dimensional compared with a reality beyond.
436 - Аноним16 июня 2015 г.
Formed and delivered in a moment, likely to be forgotten soon after, spoken language smacked to Nabokov of the prison of the present. The very nature of written language meant something special to him: an opportunity to revisit the impulse of a past instant from which time has forced us to march on, a sort of access to a more elastic time where one can loop back on an idea and develop it to maximum power and grace.
437 - Аноним16 июня 2015 г.
As with personality, so with time: Nabokov's structures compel us to recognize the fading of the past as an absurd constraint on human consciousness rather than a direct reflection of the way things are.
The fates of his characters indicate again and again the gross discrepancy between our ability to return in space and our inability to return in time.
432 - Аноним16 июня 2015 г.
Like everything else in Nabokov, his ethics spring from his view of consciousness. He sees consciousness as the space of freedom: as his style proclaims, the mind has an enormous ease of movement and range of choice and room for self-awareness within the moment. And yet consciousness, although it seems to be the agent of liberation, is also, being only human, the site of our confinement. Nabokov devises characters of astonishing mental freedom who are at the same time utterly obsessed.
428 - Аноним16 июня 2015 г.
In a century that saw the rise of minimalist art, Nabokov was a maximalist. He explored human nature at the upper reaches of consciousness.
428 - Аноним16 июня 2015 г.Читать далее
How much Nabokov took from Bergson and how much was in him already is difficult to assess. Bergson set space and time at loggerheads in order to counter the mechanistic materialism he attributed to a narrowly spatial or outer view of the world, rather than a time-oriented or inner view. Through his mother and Russian symbolism Nabokov was himself a product of the reaction against nineteenth-century materialism and therefore may have found Bergson's aims already congenial without necessarily endorsing his arguments or conclusions.
427 - Аноним16 июня 2015 г.
The first postulate of Nabokov's philosophy is the primacy of consciousness, "consciousness, which is the only real thing in the world and the greatest mystery of all."
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