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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 nyskapande.« SYDSVENSKAN * 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 Lolita är historien om hur den medelålders pedofilen Humbert Humbert dyrkar, exploaterar och utnyttjar den tolvåriga flickan Dolores Haze. Humbert Humbert berättar själv, innefrån fängelsecellen, misstänkt för mordet på en rival; ännu en man som utnyttjat Dolores, Dolly, Lo, Lolly - Lolita. Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita är en monstruös roman, totalitär i sin sexism, men också en vild satir och fars, flödande av lekar med genrer som bekännelseroman, romantisk skräckberättelse med dubbelgångarmotiv, dektivroman med flera. Exakt sextio år sedan är det som romanen utkom på det beryktade förlaget Olympia Press i Paris, efter att fem amerikanska förlag refuserat den. Idag är den självklar på alla listor över världslitteraturens största klassiker. Här presenteras Aris Fioretos hyllade svenska översättning för första gången i inbunden form. Boken är också försedd med Nabokovs eget förord till den amerikanska utgåvan från 1956, samt översättarens efterord.VLADIMIR NABOKOV [1899-1977] föddes i S:t Petersburg. 1919 flydde han undan den ryska revolutionen till England och levde sedan i livslång exil i Tyskland, Frankrike, USA och Schweiz. Sitt stora genombrott fick han efter att ha övergått från ryskan till att skriva på engelska. Hans mest lästa verk är romanen Lolita [1955]. Utöver författarskapet var Nabokov även en erkänd fjärilskännare och konstruktör av schackproblem.»Livet som om det var skapat en vårnatt av en galen poet.« | TIME MAGAZINE»Aris Fioretos återger i sin nyöversättning ordvitsarnas gymnastiska övningar utan att texten snubblar.« | DANIEL SANDSTRÖM, SYDSVENSKAN»En pågående mardröm och en motorväg av motellnätter och våldtäkter och så DU, LÄSAREN, den lättledda dåraktiga läsaren som, när du kommer till slutet av boken, upptäcker att du har följt honom blint, en främmande dåre genom nattens skogar och glassbarer, mörka biografer, skridskobanor, och du har gjort det villigt och andlöst och genom det mjuka ankdunet på småflickors överarmar, ett barns överarmar.« | SARA STRIDSBERG, AFTONBLADET
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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 silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.
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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, inte minst tack vare Lolita från 1955. Men det lekfulla, raffinerade berättandet fanns där redan från början. I denna volym samlas fyra av de ryska romanerna: Masjenka [1926], Kung, dam, knekt [1928], Han som spelade schack med livet [1930] och Skratt i mörkret [1932]. Kärlek i exil, levande skyltdockor, världsfrånvända genier, passioner och besatthet, censurerade författare på flykt - hos Nabokov är världen rik och outgrundligt systematisk. I varje ögonblick kan tillvaron stegras till vanvett och absurditet. I översättning av Aris Fioretos, Caj Lundgren, Ellen Rydelius och Estrid Tenggren, med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren Maxim Grigoriev.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV [1899-1977] föddes i Sankt Petersburg. 1919 flydde han undan den ryska revolutionen till England och levde sedan i livslång exil i Tyskland, Frankrike, USA och Schweiz. Han har publicerat romaner, noveller, dikter och dramatik och fick sitt stora genombrott med romanen Lolita [1955], efter att ha övergått från ryskan till att skriva på engelska. Utöver författarskapet var Vladimir Nabokov även en erkänd fjärilskännare och konstruktör av schackproblem.
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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 Charles Kinbote står som utgivare av den bok som läsaren håller i handen. Men inget är att lita på i denna litterära artefakt: allt är ett raffinerat spel med skuggor, genrer och askar i askar, där varje identitet och varje sanning kan ta ny gestalt eller vändas till sin motsats. »Att kalla en historia för en sann historia är en förolämpning mot såväl konsten som sanningen«, deklarerade Nabokov en gång. I Blek låga presenterar han sitt mest övertygande - och tankeintensiva - argument för den tesen. Det är ett vidunder till roman som tycks röra sig av egen kraft. I svensk översättning av Caj Lundgren.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV föddes 1899 i Sankt Petersburg och avled i Schweiz 1977. Hans familj - av förmögen adels-släkt - tvingades lämna Ryssland efter revolutionen och han levde större delen av sitt liv i exil. Efter att skrivit nio romaner på ryska växlade han språk till engelska och vann världsrykte, inte minst tack vare romanen Lolita [1955]. Blek låga utkom 1962.
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'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet 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 perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.'There's no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert' Independent
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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 is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
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'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet 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 perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.'There's no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert' Independent
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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 olycklig, och när hon inte vill gifta sig med honom börjar han smida en storslagen plan: han ska ta sig tillbaka in i Sovjetunionen, och den bragden ska vinna henne åt honom. Bragden (1932) var den femte roman som Vladimir Nabokov skrev på ryska, och den sista att översättas till engelska, 1971. Den har ibland betraktats som ett slags förstudie till den självbiografiska Tala, minne; Martin Edelweiss har många gemensamma drag och erfarenheter med Nabokov själv - men Bragden är framför allt en egenartad och vemodigt ironisk skildring av ungdom, idealism och förvillelser. Här för första gången på svenska, i översättning och med ett nyskrivet förord av Aris Fioretos.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV föddes 1899 i Sankt Petersburg och avled i Schweiz 1977. Hans familj - av förmögen adelssläkt - tvingades lämna Ryssland efter revolutionen och han levde större delen av sitt liv i exil. Efter att skrivit nio romaner på ryska växlade han språk till engelska och vann världsrykte, inte minst tack vare romanen Lolita (1955). Bragden utkommer nu, i Aris Fioretos översättning, för första gången på svenska som den sjätte boken i Modernistas Nabokov-utgivning.
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This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it manages also to be a fairy tale, an epic, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue. It concludes with an ingenious appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom. Ada, published just after Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, is the supreme work of a virtuosic imagination at white heat.Nabokov is the most allusive and linguistically playful writer in English since Joyce, and like Pale Fire and Lolita, this novel abounds in delightful minor parodies and pastiches, countless multilingual puns and literary jokes.Ada is at its core a love story, the stuff that’s sold reams of pop music, and piles of books. Van, fourteen, falls in love with twelve-year-old Ada during a summer holiday. This premise is possibly the only aspect of Ada common to numerous other novels. Van, an unreliable narrator if there ever was one, tells the story, while the narrative shuttles seamlessly from a first person to a third person - trust Nabokov the Enchanter to achieve that trick.
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Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures ... The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita ... But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair'.
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'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 professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin AmisPoet 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 tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.
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The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk - known as the 'Toad'. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk's activities and sees no threat in them. But the sinister machine which Paduk has set in motion may prove stronger than the individual, stronger even than the grotesque 'Toad' himself.
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A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.The collection displays Nabokov's astonishing range of technical and formal inventiveness: the dazzling sleight of hand, fanciful fairy tales, ingenious puzzles, enchanting vignettes and haunting melancholic narratives full of disturbing ambiguities.
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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 professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, these stories sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again.
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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-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master.Wry, intelligent and moving, Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.
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'A work of rapture - jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy' Martin Amis, The TimesSelf-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. Convinced that he has found his doppelgänger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder. Filled with impudent, startling humour, and dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a killer who thinks himself an artist, Despair takes us into a deranged world of doubles and illusions, where nothing is quite as it seems.
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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 can discover very little about his own life from the opinions of his distracted, confused fellow-émigrés. Nabokov's shortest novel, The Eye is both a satirical detective story and a wonderfully layered exploration of identity, appearance and the loss of self in a world of word-play and confusion.
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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 of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a work of art.
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'A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book ReviewAda or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words. Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Nabokov's longest, richest novel is a love story, but also a fairy tale, a historical parody, an erotic satire, an exploration of the passing of time and a supreme work of the imagination.
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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, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by him during the final years of his life.
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'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...
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The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
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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 passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest warmth'.
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Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and digs, Sebastian's erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever.Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.
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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 other plans. She wants to be a film star, and when Albinus introduces her to the American movie producer Axel Rex, she sees her chance - and plotting, duplicity and tragedy ensue.
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'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very end - just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day' - Vladimir Nabokov