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Аноним1 августа 2015 г.Читать далееFrom the time of Mary, «Chorb,» and «A Guide to Berlin,» Nabokov marked out a new route to his special goal. Rather than hoarding old icons of the beyond, he subjected the paradoxical conditions of our existence to philosophical analysis. After separating out space, time, and consciousness, he could contrast the absurd limits of the known with an implicit, philosophically possible, return through time, and as he deepened his analysis he would find ways into the unknown much more likely to the rational imagination than had ever been possible on angel wings.
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It had taken Nabokov a decade of writing well-formed verse to recognize with horror how much he had borrowed without thinking from earlier poets. In Mary he mastered at one bound the received art of the novel. He combines clarity and economy, subjective intensity and social range, memorable detail and shapely structure. He finds original solutions for the compositional problem of his novel's beginning, middle, and end, solutions that allow him to treat his special themes of the force and frailty of consciousness and the nature of human time. But it would not be his real manner to play new hands within the old game of fiction. He would learn to change the rules of the game, so that the very idea of an exposition or an ending could be discarded, parodied, inverted, or made to do something no one had ever dreamed of, so that he could re-create this world but somehow reach beyond human time
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Exposition has always been one of the storyteller's trickiest arts: how to catch attention and secretly smuggle in necessary information in one smooth movement. Nabokov hit upon a superb solution: the two leading characters get stuck in an elevator, in the dark, and garrulous Alfyorov tries to fill the disconcerting void with his babble.
24 - Аноним17 июня 2015 г.
Nabokov's sense of the tussle between the mind and the world prompted him to extraordinary feats of invention in posing and solving and interrelating riddles. As a scientist, he knew that nature gives us some clues and hides others, allows us to pursue wrong trails, offers one false bottom of truth, then another. As an artist, a chess problemist, a one-time conjurer, he found modes to match.
24 - Аноним17 июня 2015 г.
Even early in his career Nabokov avoided conventional exposition. He knew life does not supply information neatly labeled, but discloses it piece by piece to the searching eye and the wakeful mind. In his art he devised his own equivalent.
24 - Аноним6 июня 2015 г.
Nabokov's first four books as Sirin appeared within the space of four months: in November 1922, Nikolka Persik (Colas Breugnon); in December, Grozd' (The Cluster); in January 1923, Gorniy put' (The Empyrean Path); and in March 1923, Anya v strane chudes (Alice in Wonderland).
24 - Аноним6 июня 2015 г.
Not only were emigres arriving in Berlin from other centers, but the Soviet citizens allowed under NEP conditions to travel more freely abroad also gravitated there. In 1922 and 1923 almost every Russian writer of note, emigre or not, was in Berlin at least briefly: Gorky, Bely, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Remizov, Pilnyak, Aleksey Tolstoy, Ehrenburg, Khodasevich, Tsvetaeva, Zaitsev, Shklovsky, Aldanov, Adamovich, Georgy Ivanov, and many others.
24 - Аноним6 июня 2015 г.
But it was the intellectuals—the artists, writers, and scholars—who made the Russian emigration a mass exodus unique in history.
24 - Аноним6 июня 2015 г.Читать далее
With the New Economic Policy (NEP) encouraging an end to economic isolationism, Gorky managed to persuade Lenin to permit his friend the publisher Grzhebin to set himself up in Berlin, sending cheaply produced books back to a Russia where after the chaos of civil war ink and paper were in as short supply as everything else. Other Soviet enterprises followed Grzhebin, while emigre ones backed by German capital now took up the early lead of Slovo. By 1924, an astounding eighty-six Russian publishing firms had been established in Berlin.
25 - Аноним6 июня 2015 г.
By the middle of 1921 a million Russian refugees had fled the revolution and its aftermath. Some settled in Harbin or Shanghai or crossed to the United States. Most stayed in Europe, congregating in Paris, Berlin, and Prague or to a lesser extent in Riga and Sofia. As prices rose sharply in France late in 1921, emigres deserted Paris for Berlin, which by the end of the year had become the unmistakable center of the emigration.
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