Молчание любви. Илл. Г.А.В. Траугот

V knige "Molchanie li͡ubvi" pered nami predstaët i͡unyĭ Vladimir Nabokov - tonko perezhivai͡ushchiĭ, vli͡ublënnyĭ, somnevai͡ushchiĭsi͡a, ishchushchiĭ sebi͡a. I novai͡a kniga, obrashchënnai͡a k i͡unoshestvu, kak raz i soderzhit stikhi i rasskazy, otnosi͡ashchie nas k ego detstvu v Peterburgskoĭ gubernii, ego molodosti, prishedsheĭsi͡a na ėmigrat͡sii͡u v predvoennoĭ Evrope… Detstvo nobelevskogo nominanta Vladimira Vladimirovicha Nabokova svi͡azano s okrestnosti͡ami Peterburga, on provël ego v zagorodnom imenii Vyra (pod Gatchinoĭ), v usadʹbe "Vyrskai͡a myza", v Batovo i Rozhdestveno. V knigu voshli rasskazy iz sbornikov "Vozvrashchenie Chorba", "Sogli͡adataĭ", "Vesna v Fialʹte", stikhi, posvi͡ashchënnye vospominanii͡am detstva i i͡unosti, rodnomu gorodu, russkim poėtam i pisateli͡am. "Dli͡a Nabokova detstvo bylo poteri͡annym raem: v dvenadt͡satʹ let on uezzhaet vmeste s semʹeĭ iz rodnoĭ strany, i teperʹ vynuzhden perestroitʹ svoi͡u zhiznʹ. V Rossii Nabokovy byli bogaty, a v ėmigrat͡sii Vladimiru Vladimirovichu prishlosʹ zarabatyvatʹ sebe na zhiznʹ samomu: urokami frant͡suzskogo i angliĭskogo i͡azykov, a zaodno, i tennisa, i boksa. Kogda-to u nego byli guvernery - teperʹ on sam nanimalsi͡a nenadolgo guvernerom v bogatye semeĭstva. V knige soedineny teksty ochenʹ raznogo vremeni, raznogo zhanra, raznoĭ stilistiki. No vmeste oni obrazui͡ut svoeobraznyĭ uzor. My idëm s pisatelem po ego zhizni, ot rai͡a utrachennogo - k rai͡u obretënnomu. I my mozhet pochuvstvovatʹ, prosleditʹ, kak ėtot raĭ obretaet svoi ochertanii͡a. Ėto edinstvo pomogai͡ut nam pochuvstvovatʹ risunki zamechatelʹnykh khudozhnikov Aleksandra i Valerii͡a Traugotov". Valeriĭ Shubinskiĭ.

In the book "The Silence of Love," we see the young Vladimir Nabokov, who is subtly worried, in love, doubting, and looking for himself. And the new book, addressed to young people, contains poems and stories that relate us to his childhood in the St. Petersburg province, his youth, which came to emigrate to pre-war Europe ... The childhood of Nobel nominee Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov is connected with the environs of St. Petersburg, he spent it in the country estate of Vyra (near Gatchina), in the manor Vyrskaya Manor, in Batovo and Rozhdestveno. The book includes short stories from the collections "The Return of Chorba", "The Spy", "Spring in Violet", poems dedicated to childhood and youth memories, his hometown, Russian poets and writers. "For Nabokov, childhood was a paradise lost: at the age of twelve, he left his native country with his family, and now he has to rebuild his life. In Russia, the Nabokovs were rich, but in exile, Vladimir Vladimirovich had to earn his own living by teaching French and English, and at the same time, tennis and boxing. Once he had tutors - now he himself was hired for a short time as a tutor to rich families. The book combines texts from very different times, different genres, and different styles. But together they form a peculiar pattern. We walk with the writer through his life, from paradise lost to paradise found. And we can feel and trace how this paradise takes shape. This unity helps us to feel the drawings of the wonderful artists Alexander and Valery Traugotov." Valery Shubinsky.