Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world...
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
Vladimir 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 anti-Semitism 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 sh...
Vladimir 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 anti-Semitism 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 18 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. His most notable works include 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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"How fascinating it would be [...] if one could use this method for having some well-known picture, preferably of the Dutch School, perfectly reproduced on the screen in vivid colors and then brought ..."How fascinating it would be [...] if one could use this method for having some well-known picture, preferably of the Dutch School, perfectly reproduced on the screen in vivid colors and then brought to life-movement and gesture graphically developed in complete harmony with their static state..." v.s. "Stage-directions for last silent scene"(展开)
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0 有用 Daisy 2018-01-22 13:00:38
"How fascinating it would be [...] if one could use this method for having some well-known picture, preferably of the Dutch School, perfectly reproduced on the screen in vivid colors and then brought ... "How fascinating it would be [...] if one could use this method for having some well-known picture, preferably of the Dutch School, perfectly reproduced on the screen in vivid colors and then brought to life-movement and gesture graphically developed in complete harmony with their static state..." v.s. "Stage-directions for last silent scene" (展开)
3 有用 Apricot 2019-12-10 05:14:06
This is actually so good. Brutally funny, classy, somewhat similar to a film noir (with a femme fatale figure). A wonderful read.
0 有用 凹凸曼举手 2019-05-21 09:13:11
虽然每个人物都不喜欢，但越到后面越好看，以为故事俗烂，但Nabokov永远让你无法意料。不知道是不是英文翻译的原因，文字表达十分直接简单
0 有用 明知非债清偿 2023-07-11 17:46:00 上海
大概是读到一半的时候，我突然明白了为何纳博科夫在某一阶层中如此受欢迎：自然，这本书即使作为早期作品，在技艺上也是足够优秀。纳博科夫继承了19世纪以降优秀现实主义小说的诸多优良传统，但他的关注点却非常平庸地（在我看来）停滞甚至倒退了。他的小说自然并非完全局限于中产特权阶层，但却又非常滑稽地把他们作为讽刺笑料的同时以他们作为小说的真正主人公来探讨他们的处境。作为一个20世纪的作家，即使不从意识形态角度... 大概是读到一半的时候，我突然明白了为何纳博科夫在某一阶层中如此受欢迎：自然，这本书即使作为早期作品，在技艺上也是足够优秀。纳博科夫继承了19世纪以降优秀现实主义小说的诸多优良传统，但他的关注点却非常平庸地（在我看来）停滞甚至倒退了。他的小说自然并非完全局限于中产特权阶层，但却又非常滑稽地把他们作为讽刺笑料的同时以他们作为小说的真正主人公来探讨他们的处境。作为一个20世纪的作家，即使不从意识形态角度对其进行批判，这也是矛盾而滑稽的——作家本人像是完全忽略了这个问题似的。 (展开)
0 有用 超濕貓咪 2022-06-05 11:29:35
Film noir 波多黎各旅行读完
0 有用 faustparody 2024-01-30 10:39:08 浙江
film noir 黑暗降临后，故事才显得有意思起来，最后一幕不错
0 有用 legallyannoyed 2023-07-12 23:09:58 广东
看完了！差不多两小时的阅读时间，因为最后的plot twist所以感觉是非常欧亨利的一本，不过和纳别的作品相比算是比较弱的一本？语言精巧的感觉减少了换来很容易读下去，6/10这样
0 有用 明知非债清偿 2023-07-11 17:46:00 上海
大概是读到一半的时候，我突然明白了为何纳博科夫在某一阶层中如此受欢迎：自然，这本书即使作为早期作品，在技艺上也是足够优秀。纳博科夫继承了19世纪以降优秀现实主义小说的诸多优良传统，但他的关注点却非常平庸地（在我看来）停滞甚至倒退了。他的小说自然并非完全局限于中产特权阶层，但却又非常滑稽地把他们作为讽刺笑料的同时以他们作为小说的真正主人公来探讨他们的处境。作为一个20世纪的作家，即使不从意识形态角度... 大概是读到一半的时候，我突然明白了为何纳博科夫在某一阶层中如此受欢迎：自然，这本书即使作为早期作品，在技艺上也是足够优秀。纳博科夫继承了19世纪以降优秀现实主义小说的诸多优良传统，但他的关注点却非常平庸地（在我看来）停滞甚至倒退了。他的小说自然并非完全局限于中产特权阶层，但却又非常滑稽地把他们作为讽刺笑料的同时以他们作为小说的真正主人公来探讨他们的处境。作为一个20世纪的作家，即使不从意识形态角度对其进行批判，这也是矛盾而滑稽的——作家本人像是完全忽略了这个问题似的。 (展开)
0 有用 Taurus 2023-05-30 03:41:37 北京
纳博科夫用天才的手法跟他的读者开了个大大的玩笑。Albinus是他的读者，Rex代表了艺术的技巧，也就是艺术家高明的骗术，Margot是他的工具。读者被他狠狠地嘲讽与调戏了。有种受辱的感觉。
0 有用 BronzeD 2023-04-13 08:40:13 辽宁
有点残忍的故事