Nabokov
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例句
This office has taken a long time to say no to Nabokov's Lolita which you and I both know was impossible at least for us.
本社花了很長時間決定不錄用納博科夫的《洛麗塔》,你和我都知道這是不可能的,至少我們不可能出版。
Nabokov says, pointedly, that, "We were all of the same opinion. It was just a torso, and not a glorious torso. "
納博科夫尖銳地說道,「我們意見一致。它只是一件殘缺的作品,而且還不是那種很美麗的。」
"If I told you, " Nabokov demurred, with teasing courtesy, "that would be an interview. "
「如果我告訴了你,」納博科夫的禮貌里帶著揶揄,他反對道:「那就要變成采訪了。」
"Fortunately, " said Nabokov in his own lecture on Kafka, "Brod did not comply with his friend's wishes. "
納博科夫在他關于卡夫卡的講座里自己說,「Brod沒有照他朋友的心愿辦。」
This remark has been used by the Nabokov estate as a prescient approval of its failure to destroy The Original of Laura.
這段評論已經被納博科夫的遺產繼承者當作未能銷毀TheOriginalofLaura的預見性的準許。
So how good was The Original of Laura, and what was its place in the Nabokov canon?
那么TheOriginalofLaura有多好呢,它在納博科夫的作品里處于什么樣的地位呢?
"Nabokov felt that the thrill of discovery was one of the highest things life had to offer, " Boyd says.
“納博科夫覺得發現新事物的感動是生活能帶來的至高之物之一,”Boyd說。
Nabokov routinely composed on such cards, shuffling and reshuffling the deck as he wrote. It was like constructing a puzzle.
納博科夫時常在這樣的卡片上創作,一邊寫一邊打亂卡片的順序,就像在構建一個謎。
Nabokov, the authorial prankster, buried Easter eggs of every sort for careful readers to unearth.
納博科夫,專業惡作劇寫作家,為細心的讀者埋藏了所有種類的彩蛋以供挖掘。
Mitgang says he found Nabokov to be "very cordial" , but that he got little else from the meeting.
Mitgang稱,在這次見面中,他覺得納博科夫「非常熱忱」,但除此之外,所得什少。
Vladimir Nabokov looking out of his car holding a frankly primitive pencil.
弗拉基米爾·納博科夫在他的車內看向外面,手里拿著一只非常原始的鉛筆。
As a coda, Mr Horowitz compares the experiences of Thomas Mann and Vladimir Nabokov in the United States.
在書的完結部分,賀樂維茲比較了托馬斯馬恩和弗拉基爾納博科夫在美國的經歷。
This charm to mainly from the "Lolita" and intricate narrative structure and that the magic styles, Nabokov-language style.
這魅力來主要來自于《洛麗塔》中精巧的敘事結構和那魔術般變化多端的、納博科夫式的語言風格。
"Most of his tail was gone, " Nabokov writes of the chipmunk, "the stump was bleeding. "
他這樣形容花栗鼠,“它的尾巴已經沒了,殘肢一直在流血。”
Vladimir Nabokov's response to this routine inquiry was at once moving and mysterious.
納博科夫對這種例行詢問的答復動人而神秘。
In Vladimir Nabokov's memoir, "Speak, Memory" , he describes coming upon a cat torturing a chipmunk.
在VladimirNabokov[注4]的回憶錄“說吧記憶”中,他描寫到一只貓折磨一只花栗鼠。
Novelist Edmund White, whose early work had been championed by Nabokov, was equally blunt.
小說家EdmundWhite早年的作品曾得到納博科夫的支持,他的態度同樣生硬。
When Vera Nabokov died in 1991, there was no escaping the family curse.
VeraNabokov在1991年去世,但這個家庭的禁咒并未就此完結。
Those for whom Nabokov is, in the words of Martin Amis, "the laureate of cruelty" , see his deathbed decree as peculiarly vexing.
那些認為納博科夫是「殘忍的桂冠詩人」——用MartinAmis的話來說——的人,看到他的臨終判令,特別惱怒。
Writing on index cards, in pencil, had become Nabokov's preferred method of composition.
在索引卡上,用鉛筆寫,是納博科夫最喜歡的寫作方式。
Nabokov eventually found his niche, teaching at Wellesley College and Cornell and finally publishing Lolita, after many rejections, in 1955.
納博科夫最終找到了自己的定位,他在Wellesley學院和Cornell開始教書生涯,并在多次被拒之后,終于在1955年,出版了Lolita。
Lolita " is very special, different from nabokov's other novels, this book is afraid of stars can spit a river. "
《洛麗塔》很特別,不同于納博科夫的其它的小說,這一本可以說是引起的唾沫星子恐怕可以匯成一條河了。
Instantly, everyone from broadcasters to people who don't know anything about hockey denounced Nabokov's play.
隨即,所有人包括電視評論員和那些對冰球一無所知的人都紛紛指責納伯可夫表現不佳。
The Style of Self-cancelling Assertion: How does Heller Differ from Wilde? From Nabokov? From Humbert?
自我否認的風格:海勒與王爾德有何不同?與納博可夫呢?與亨伯特呢?
Nabokov's unreliable narrator can hardly be included in the category of the retardates or the morally corrupted.
納博科夫的不可靠敘述者不能簡單地歸入智力低下或道德敗壞者之列。
e critic, Vladimir Nabokov once observed, reads not with his brain but with his backbone.
弗拉基米爾?納波可夫曾說,真正的評論家讀書時用的不是大腦,而是脊梁骨。
An only child, Dmitri has always expressed a quasi-tribal loyalty to the Nabokov name, but that is not the whole story.
作為獨子,Dmitri對納博科夫這個姓氏,表現出一種半宗族式的忠誠,但情況又不全是這樣。
The theme of the book, central to Nabokov, is Death and what lies beyond it.
這本書的主題是一直纏繞在納博科夫心中的死亡和死亡背后的種種。
In 1940, fleeing the Nazis, Nabokov embarked on a second exile to America, landing in New York with just $100.
在40年代,為躲避納粹,他第二次逃亡,坐船去了美國。抵達紐約時,他身上只有100美元。
Nabokov gives the reader four cantos of Pale Fire, 999 lines of rhyming couplets, plus an editor's foreword and scholarly annotations.
而納博科夫在PaleFire里給讀者四章共999行雙行押韻的長詩,再加上編輯的前言和學術性的評注。
In 1940, fleeing the Nazis, Nabokov embarked on a second exile to America, landing in New York with just $100.
在40年代,為躲避納粹,他第二次逃亡,坐船去了美國。抵達紐約時,他身上只有100美元。
Nabokov gives the reader four cantos of Pale Fire, 999 lines of rhyming couplets, plus an editor's foreword and scholarly annotations.
而納博科夫在PaleFire里給讀者四章共999行雙行押韻的長詩,再加上編輯的前言和學術性的評注。
As one of the most important and original writers in the 20th century, Nabokov had made great achievements in novels, poetry and drama.
納博科夫是20世紀獨樹一幟的重量級作家。他在小說、詩歌和戲劇等方面都取得卓越的成就。
When "Tool" first surfaced in Nabokov's notebooks, in 1974, it was Dying Is Fun and then The Opposite of Laura.
「工具」第一次出現在納博科夫的筆記本里的時候,那是1974年,它叫《死亡有趣》,后來改為《勞拉的對立面》。
Last week, his cousin Ivan Nabokov described to the Observer the executor's anguish.
上周,他的親戚IvanNabokov向觀察員報描述了這位遺囑執行人的痛苦。
For Nabokov, art and life were always "a game of intricate enchantment and deception" .
對納博科夫,藝術和生活永遠是「充滿了錯綜復雜的魅力和詭計的棋局」。
Nabokov's Reflections of Art That Transcend "the Exhaustion of Literature"
納博科夫對“文學枯竭論”的超越性思考
In Nabokov's novel "Lolita" , the male protagonist is a typical example of Humbert.
在納博科夫的長篇小說《洛麗塔》中,男主人公亨伯特就是典型例子。
Nabokov came from a family of almost impossible grandeur, Russian liberals who fled the Crimea in 1919.
納博科夫生在一個無比偉大的俄國自由主義者的家庭,他們于1919年逃離了克里米亞。
Addicted to Notecards: Vladimir Nabokov used 5- by 8-inch index cards to compose and order the scenes in his novels.
弗拉基米爾納博科夫經常用5-8英寸的索引卡去撰寫和排序小說的場景。