When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.
Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
With an Introduction by Martin Amis
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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評分這部作品的敘事風格簡直是一場文字的盛宴,細膩到令人窒息,仿佛作者將每一個場景都用最精美的絲綫編織而成。 故事的基調是那種帶著一絲憂鬱的、對逝去美好時光的追憶,但又隱隱透露齣一種難以言喻的、危險的美感。 我讀到主人公對某個特定事物近乎病態的迷戀時,那種強烈的、幾乎能穿透紙頁的執著感,讓我不得不停下來,反復咀嚼那些措辭。 他的內心世界如同一個布置精美的迷宮,四處充滿瞭華麗的辭藻和古典的意象,但當你試圖找到齣口時,卻發現每條路都通嚮同一個令人不安的核心。 尤其欣賞作者在描繪環境細節時的功力,那些夏日的慵懶、異國情調的小鎮風光,都被賦予瞭某種預示性的光芒,使得單純的背景也充滿瞭隱喻的張力。 讀完後,留下的不是一個清晰的故事梗概,而是一種揮之不去的情緒殘渣,一種對“美”與“禁忌”之間模糊界限的深刻反思。 這種文字的質感,讓人聯想到十九世紀那些沉浸在頹廢美學中的大師們,但又明顯帶著一種更現代的、更尖銳的自我審視。 它不是一本可以輕鬆翻閱的書,它需要時間,需要投入,纔能真正領會其中那些閃爍著危險光芒的真諦。
评分說實話,這本書的閱讀體驗是相當具有挑戰性的,但也是極其充實和令人耳目一新的。 它的視角極其個人化,幾乎是主角內心獨白的一場全景展示,這要求讀者必須完全沉浸在他的邏輯體係中去理解一切。 我欣賞作者在構建人物心理深度上的不懈努力,他沒有簡單地將角色標簽化,而是細緻入微地展現瞭其思想的矛盾性、僞裝與真實之間的拉扯。 很多時候,你會為主人公的某些想法感到不安,但作者卻巧妙地通過其無可挑剔的文筆,讓你不得不去承認這些想法存在於人性的幽暗角落。 書中的一些段落,讀起來簡直像是在欣賞一幅文藝復興時期的油畫,色彩濃鬱,結構嚴謹,充滿瞭對古典文學和藝術的緻敬。 它迫使我跳齣日常的道德框架去審視敘事中的一切,這是一種非常難得的閱讀體驗,因為它拓展瞭我對文學錶達可能性的認知。 讀完閤上書的那一刻,我有一種完成瞭一次艱苦但有價值的智力攀登的感覺。
评分我不得不承認,這本書的節奏感處理得極為高明,它不是那種平鋪直敘的綫性敘事,而更像是一部慢熱的、精心調校的古典音樂。 開頭部分,信息如同霧氣般緩緩散開,你隻能捕捉到一些片段的輪廓,這種刻意的疏離感反而激發瞭讀者強烈的探究欲。 當情節逐漸推進,人物間的互動開始變得微妙而復雜時,你會發現作者在對話的設計上簡直是大師級的。 那些看似漫不經心的交流中,暗流湧動著力量的角逐和情感的較量,每一個停頓、每一個省略號,都比直接的陳述更有衝擊力。 我特彆喜歡他如何利用環境的變化來烘托人物心境的轉摺,比如從一個陽光明媚的度假地突然轉入到一個略顯陰鬱的城市環境,這種對比處理得非常自然,卻又極富象徵意義。 整本書讀下來,你會感覺自己仿佛參與瞭一場冗長的、充滿哲學意味的辯論,關於自由、關於藝術、關於人性的邊界。 它成功地將一個令人不適的主題,包裹在如此考究和優雅的外衣之下,這種反差帶來的震撼,是許多直白敘事難以企及的。
评分這部作品最讓我印象深刻的是它對“時間”和“記憶”的處理方式,完全顛覆瞭我對傳統小說結構的一貫認知。 它似乎並不著急於抵達某個終點,而是沉醉於對某個特定時期、特定感受的反復打磨和重構。 這種結構上的“循環往復”,恰恰完美地契閤瞭主角那種被睏住的、不斷重溫過去美好幻象的心態。 書中的語言節奏變化多端,時而如同一首輕快的圓舞麯,充滿瞭對青春和冒險的贊美;時而又陡然轉為低沉的挽歌,充滿瞭對失去的哀嘆和對現實的無力感。 這種情緒的起伏,使得整部小說充滿瞭生命力,即使它探討的主題是如此的沉重和灰暗。 我個人認為,作者在選擇敘事載體和情緒烘托方麵,展現瞭近乎天纔般的直覺,他知道如何用最恰當的“糖衣”來包裹最難以下咽的“藥丸”,讓讀者在被文字的美麗所吸引的同時,也被故事背後的復雜性所睏擾。
评分從文學技巧的角度來看,這本書無疑是教科書級彆的範例,展示瞭如何通過對細節的極緻掌控來塑造宏大的主題。 它的世界構建並非依靠宏大的背景設定,而是完全依賴於感官體驗的堆砌——氣味、觸感、光影的細微變化,都被賦予瞭重大的敘事意義。 每一個場景都像一個精心布置的舞颱,燈光和道具的選擇都服務於錶達人物錯綜復雜的情感狀態。 我尤其贊賞作者在處理人物“缺席”時的描繪能力。 那些沒有直接齣現的人物,卻因為敘述者的強烈主觀感受,而顯得比在場的任何人都更加鮮活和具有影響力。 這種“看不見的在場”創造瞭一種持續的、令人不安的張力。 這本書需要讀者保持高度的專注力,因為它拒絕提供簡單的答案或清晰的道德指南,它更像是一麵被精心打磨過的棱鏡,摺射齣人內心深處那些光怪陸離、難以名狀的渴望。 最終的閱讀感受,是一種復雜、深刻的、關於人類情感復雜性的沉思。
评分Lolita, Lust, Love, Loins, Life. / Dream, Destiny, Deceit, Despair, Destruction.
评分臥槽。能寫齣這裏的二十分之一的精靈勁兒我覺得我都可以寫完直接去死然後die happy瞭。。。_(´ཀ`」 ∠)_
评分His language is not only complex but also oppositely native, which is hard to catch the point. However, this book shows me a sense of odd but harmonious mixture and beauty. I just find, sometimes, I am the male character to some extent.
评分納博科夫那種軟軟的情緒,在軟軟的法文中輕輕地流淌。當時我一點法語都不懂,看的有點惱火,總覺得他在背著我賣弄風情。
评分Lolita, Lust, Love, Loins, Life. / Dream, Destiny, Deceit, Despair, Destruction.
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