Волшебник

Nastoi͡ashchee izdanie sostavili dva poslednikh krupnykh proizvedenii͡a Vladimira Nabokova evropeĭskogo perioda, napisannye v Parizhe pered otʺezdom v Ameriku v 1940 g. Oba okazali reshai͡ushchee vlii͡anie na vse posledui͡ushchee angloi͡azychnoe tvorchestvo pisateli͡a. Povestʹ "Volshebnik" (1939) - pervai͡a popytka Nabokova izlozhitʹ temu "Lolity", roman "Solus Rex" (1940) - priblizhenie k zamyslu "Blednogo ogni͡a". Sozhalei͡a o nezavershennosti "Solus Rex", Nabokov zametil, chto "po svoemu koloritu, po stilisticheskomu razmakhu i izobilii͡u, po chemu-to neopredeli͡aemomu v ego moshchnom glubinnom techenii, on obeshchal reshitelʹno otlichatʹsi͡a ot vsekh drugikh moikh russkikh sochineniĭ". V Prilozhenii publikuetsi͡a otryvok iz arkhivnogo mashinopisnogo teksta "Solus Rex", iskli͡uchennyĭ iz parizhskoĭ zhurnalʹnoĭ publikat͡sii.

This edition consists of Vladimir Nabokov's last two major works of the European period, written in Paris before leaving for America in 1940. Both had a decisive influence on all subsequent English-language work of the writer. The story "The Wizard" (1939) is Nabokov's first attempt to present the theme of "Lolita", the novel "Solus Rex" (1940) is an approximation to the idea of "Pale Fire". Regretting the incompleteness of Solus Rex, Nabokov noted that "in its color, stylistic scope and abundance, and something indefinable in its powerful underlying flow, it promised to be decidedly different from all my other Russian works." The Appendix contains an excerpt from the archived typewritten text "Solus Rex", excluded from the Paris journal publication.