Набоков без Лолиты. Путеводитель c картами, картинками и загадками

V ėtoĭ knige rasskazyvai͡utsi͡a raznye istorii o Vladimire Nabokove i o geroi͡akh ego sochineniĭ. Veselye literaturovedcheskie, grustnye chelovecheskie - mnogomnogo istoriĭ. Kak Turgenev bezhal ot obezʹi͡any, a Nabokov emu pozavidoval. Kak Khodasevich schital, chto net nichego luchshe, chem navsegda rasstatʹsi͡a s vozli͡ublennoĭ, a Nabokov ne mog reshitʹ, tak ėto ili ne tak. Kak Vera Slonim zarabatyvala denʹgi, poka Nabokov korpel nad strokoĭ. Kak tysi͡achi ėmigrantov sideli nochami s pustymi papirosami u kamennykh berlinskikh kanalov i razgadyvali krossvordy sozvezdiĭ. Kak "master golodanii͡a" Dzholli ne el 44 dni͡a. Kak Ĭozef Rot uvidel v vitrine dvukh zhenshchin - nemolodui͡u s korytom i molodui͡u s reklamiruemoĭ stiralʹnoĭ mashinoĭ. Kak Alekseĭ Balabanov khotel ėkranizirovatʹ "Kameru obskuru", izobraziv v neĭ nastupai͡ushchiĭ fashizm. Kak Fet rifmuetsi͡a s Mi͡usse, Blok s apelʹsinami, muzhchiny s ptit͡sami, a zhenshchiny so t͡svetami. Kak malʹchik mchit cherez les pi͡atʹ chasov na velosipede k devochke, i lopaetsi͡a shina. Kak prekrasna vyvorochennai͡a na zimni͡ui͡u ulit͡su truba, "pokrytai͡a tikhim sloem snega, s dvumi͡a otverstii͡ami i tainstvennoĭ glubinoĭ". Kak Sirin iz teksta v tekst izdevaetsi͡a nad Freĭdom, a nebo nad krematoriem v Vilʹmersdorfe prevrashchaetsi͡a v goluboe salo. Pochemu u geroi͡a "Dara" Fedora Godunova-Cherdynt͡seva dve daty rozhdenii͡a, kak rasskazchik v "Otchai͡anii" ne vidit togo, o chem sam zhe i rasskazyvaet, a grossmeĭster Luzhin nedovolen vzaimnym raspolozheniem kontinentov.

This book tells different stories about Vladimir Nabokov and the heroes of his writings. Funny literary stories, sad human ones — there are many stories. How Turgenev ran from a monkey, and Nabokov envied him. How Khodasevich believed that there was nothing better than to leave his beloved forever, and Nabokov could not decide whether this was the case or not. How Vera Slonim earned money while Nabokov was poring over the line. How thousands of emigrants sat at night with empty cigarettes by the stone Berlin canals and solved crosswords of constellations. As a "fasting master," Jolly hasn't eaten in 44 days. How Josef Roth saw two women in the window — an elderly woman with a trough and a young woman with an advertised washing machine. How Alexey Balabanov wanted to film "Camera Obscura", depicting the coming fascism in it. How Fet rhymes with Musset, Blok with oranges, men with birds, and women with flowers. How a boy rushes through the forest for five hours on a bicycle to a girl, and a tire bursts. How beautiful is a pipe turned out on a winter street, "covered with a quiet layer of snow, with two holes and a mysterious depth." How Sirin mocks Freud from text to text, and the sky over the crematorium in Wilmersdorf turns into blue fat. Why does the hero of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev's "The Gift" have two dates of birth, how does the narrator in "Despair" not see what he himself is talking about, and grandmaster Luzhin is unhappy with the relative location of the continents.