Vladimir Nabokov - Böcker

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, Observer Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the pe...

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* Över 50 miljoner sålda exemplar »Lyckliga du, som ännu har läsupplevelsen framför dig: så är det förstås inte. Lolita är helt enkelt en av nittonhundratalets litterära milstolpar, formmässigt fulländad, tematiskt angelägen och idémässigt nyskapa...

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'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine ... You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent' Martin Amis, Observer Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and see...

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A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.

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Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A si...

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Blek låga är den intrikate romanbyggaren Vladimir Nabokovs kanske mest intrikata roman. Till det yttre är den en kommenterad utgåva av en 999 rader lång dikt av den amerikanske poeten John Shade, som nyligen gått bort. Hans granne och kollega Char...

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The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote...

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Mästerliga tidiga verk för första gången i samlad volym Vladimir Nabokov är en av litteraturhistoriens stora språkbytare. Han skrev sina första nio romaner på ryska, i relativ obemärkthet, och växlade sedan till engelska och blev världsberömd, int...

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'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army ...

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Efter ryska revolutionen har tjugotvåårige Martin Edelweiss, via Krim och Grekland, kommit till Cambridge. Han hänger sig åt studier och sällskapsliv, och njuter av de möjligheter som miljön erbjuder. Men hans kärlek till den unga Sonia blir olyck...

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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition 'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks t...

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When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, doe...

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»Hör till det bästa Nabokov lät lämna sin hand.« | Victor Malm, Sydsvenskan »Aris Fioretos verkar vara född till att översätta Nabokov [...] Fioretos lekfullhet och stilkänsla ligger helt enkelt så nära det här författarskapet det bara går att kom...

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Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haz...

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'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college...

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Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as...

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Efter sin död, med antagandet att det bara rör sig om en fantasi som råkat bli kvar i världen, följer hjältens öga en grupp ryska emigranter i exil i Berlin efter revolutionen. Han försöker uppfatta hur de ser på en viss Smurnov, en man som omges ...

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Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical ...

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Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has ot...

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Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displa...

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'A work of rapture - jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy' Martin Amis, The Times Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a ch...

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* Över 50 miljoner sålda exemplar * 4:a på Modern Librarys lista över 1900-talets bästa engelskspråkiga romaner * Aris Fioretos lysande översättning för första gången i inbunden utgåva, med Nabokovs eget förord och ett efterord av översättaren Lol...

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Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which h...

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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her a...

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För första gången på svenska, i översättning av Aris Fioretos »Alla ingredienser som hans storverk kokats på finns med: det viga språket, den sammansatta intrigen, de underbart hånfulla personporträtten, den förljugna och megalomana berättaren.« |...

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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edite...

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Mästerliga tidiga verk för första gången i samlad volym Vladimir Nabokov är en av litteraturhistoriens stora språkbytare. Han skrev sina första nio romaner på ryska, i relativ obemärkthet, och växlade sedan till engelska och blev världsberömd, int...

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The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious...

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Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he...

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'A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book Review Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's countr...

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