Машенька. Подвиг

Dva avtobiograficheskikh romana Vladimira Nabokova pod odnoĭ oblozhkoĭ. Oba byli napisany v Berline i vyshli pod psevdonimom V. Sirin.Odnoĭ iz glavnykh tem oboikh romanov i͡avli͡aetsi͡a vzaimootnoshenie proshlogo i nastoi͡ashchego. A uchityvai͡a ėmigrantskiĭ status i geroi͡a "Mashenʹki" Ganina, i geroi͡a "Podviga" Martyna, - proshloe okazyvaetsi͡a namnogo bolee i͡arkim i mnogoobeshchai͡ushchim. No mozhno li, opirai͡asʹ na uskolʹznuvshie navsegda mgnovenii͡a, postroitʹ svoe budushchee? Ėti voprosy i͡avno muchili ne tolʹko geroev i ne tolʹko ikh sozdateli͡a, no i vsekh tekh, kto byl vynuzhden pokinutʹ sovetskui͡u Rossii͡u i uvezti s soboĭ Rossii͡u dorevoli͡ut͡sionnui͡u. V pisʹme materi Nabokov pisal o romane "Mashenʹka" i ego geroi͡akh: " I͡A znai͡u, chem pakhnet kazhdyĭ, kak khodit, kak est, i tak khorosho ponimai͡u, chto Bog - sozdavai͡a mir - nakhodil v ėtom chistui͡u i volnui͡ushchui͡u otradu. My zhe, perevodchiki Bozhʹikh tvoreniĭ, malenʹkie plagiatory i podrazhateli ego, inogda, bytʹ mozhet, ukrashaem Bogom napisannoe, kak byvaet, chto ocharovatelʹnyĭ kommentator pridaet eshche bolʹshe prelesti inoĭ stroke genii͡a".Opublikovannai͡a v 1926 godu v berlinskom izdatelʹstve "Slovo" "Mashenʹka" i uvidevshiĭ svet v 1931 godu "Podvig" - odni iz samykh lichnykh romanov Nabokova, neveroi͡atno podrobno issledui͡ushchie zybkui͡u i prizrachnui͡u territorii͡u chelovecheskikh vospominaniĭ

Two autobiographical novels by Vladimir Nabokov under one cover. Both were written in Berlin and published under the pseudonym V. Sirin.One of the main themes of both novels is the relationship between the past and the present. And given the emigrant status of both the hero of "Masha" Ganin and the hero of "Feat" Martin, the past turns out to be much more vivid and promising. But is it possible, based on the moments that have slipped away forever, to build your future? These questions clearly tormented not only the heroes and not only their creator, but also all those who were forced to leave Soviet Russia and take pre-revolutionary Russia with them. In a letter to his mother, Nabokov wrote about the novel "Masha" and its characters: "I know what everyone smells like, how they walk, how they eat, and I understand so well that God, when creating the world, found pure and exciting joy in this. We, the translators of God's creations, little plagiarists and imitators of his, sometimes, perhaps, decorate what God has written, as it happens that a charming commentator adds even more charm to another line of genius."Mashenka, published in 1926 in the Berlin publishing house Slovo, and Feat, published in 1931, are one of Nabokov's most personal novels, exploring in incredible detail the shaky and ghostly territory of human memories