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版次：1
页数：212
字数：
印刷时间：2011年11月01日
开本：32开
纸张：胶版纸
包装：平装
是否套装：否
国际标准书号ISBN：9780679723431

作者:Vladimir Nabokov　编出版社:Random House US出版时间:2011年11月

内容简介

　　Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.

作者简介

　　Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, inSt. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their highculture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov wasan outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of theopposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevikrevolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he wasshot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying toshield the speaker from right-wing assassins.
　　The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov wasalready reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine,Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainmentsof Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, hestudied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge,taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years helived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian underthe pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations,lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crosswordpuzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom hehad one child, a son, Dmitri.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in
St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high
culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was
an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the
opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik
revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was
shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to
shield the speaker from right-wing assassins. 
　　The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was
already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine,
Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he
studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge,
taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years he
lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under
the pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations,
lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword
puzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom he
had one child, a son, Dmitri. 
　　Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee
once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the
United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell.
He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in
English. In his afterword to Lolita he claimed: "My private
tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern,
is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich,
and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of
English, devoid of any of those apparatuses--the baffling mirror,
the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and
traditions--which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can
magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way." [p. 317]
Yet Nabokov's American period saw the creation of what are arguably
his greatest works, Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin
(1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his
earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English
translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several
books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland,
in 1977.

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