К этому циклу можно причислить такие произведения, как романы «Приглашение на казнь» (написан в 1934–1935, опубликован в 1938 году) и «Дар» (1939), рассказы «Облако, озеро, башня» и «Истребление тиранов», пьеса «Изобретение Вальса» (1937).
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«When reading „Bend Sinister“ it is vital to remember that its author would label a book about oppression of the human spirit by a stupid and brutal gouvernment „topical trash“» (
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«The techniques of self-declared artifice prevent us from identifying with Adam Krug and his world; we have no illusions that such an „invented habitus“ is continuous with our own reality»
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«Where someone like Orwell, who sees the world in purely political terms, would try to herd us through horror to hysteria, Nabokov refuses to take Paduk and his underlings seriously»
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«Nabokov is our greatest living writer and if he has written <…> a fable about the vulnerability of having a handle, he himself seems to have no handle at all, not even a ghostly lapel by which we could seize hold of him for a moment»
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Сравнение между двумя романами мы найдем в:
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Vladimir Nabokov — Edmund Wilson: correspondance 1940–1971 / Ed. S. Karlinsky; Trad. Ch. Raguet- Bouvart. Paris; Marseille, 1988. P. 205 (письмо Вильсона от 30 января 1947).
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«Absolutely final indictments of Russian and German totalitarianism» (по поводу «Приглашения на казнь» и «Bend Sinister»). См.:
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См. статью «Vladimir Nabokov:
