Lužinova obrana - Vladimír Nabokov

Lužinova obrana - Vladimír Nabokov

Lužinovu postavu, hoci fiktívnu, kritici hodnotia ako najvernejšie zobrazeného Nabokovovho hrdinu. Lužin sa od detstva cíti cudzo vo svete, ktorý ho obklopuje, kým sa nestretne so šachom. Táto hra ho uchváti tak, že sa mu stáva životom. Po nesmiernych úspechoch však začne

Lužinova obrana - Vladimír Nabokov

Nabokovovo vrcholné dílo je románem o posedlosti a šílenství. Vypráví mrazivý příběh člověka, jehož život se postupně proměňuje v sled šachových kombinací. Geniální Lužin je věčné dítě, duševně nevyrovnaný samotář, který se k šachům uchýlí, protože mu

Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John

The Annotated Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Speak, Memory - An Autobiography Revisited (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents 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

Lolita - Vladimír Nabokov

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?

Nabokov´s Dozen - Vladimír Nabokov

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

Enchanter (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'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

Nabokov's Dozen - Thirteen Stories (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Poems (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and

Ada or Ardor (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

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

Lectures on Literature (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers;

Bunin a Nabokov - Maxim D. Šrajer

Mená géniov ruskej slovesnosti Ivana Bunina a Vladimíra Nabokova vo vedomí čitateľov spája rovnaký jazyk, epocha, významný vklad do literárneho dedičstva, ako aj život a tvorba v emigrácii. No títo autori majú k sebe aj osobne a osobnostne veľmi blízko. V novej knihe

Revolver v kabelce - Monika Zgustová

Jméno Nabokov znají všichni, hlavně díky Lolitě. Považujeme ho za klasika moderní literatury, jeho díla tvoří kánon – a také kult. Monika Zgustová přibližuje čtenářům jeho osobnost spisovatelskou, ale také lidskou. V novele Revolver v kabelce sledujeme spisovatele

King, Queen, Knave (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'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

Lolita - Vladimír Nabokov

Výstřední zpověď čtyřicátníka Humberta Humberta o jeho zničující erotické posedlosti kouzlem 'nymfičky' Dolores Hazeové vzbudila krátce po svém vzniku bouři odporu i nemístná očekávání. Nakonec zajistila svému autorovi celosvětový věhlas a postupně začala být

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

'Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.' -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew

Collected Stories (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. 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?

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'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

Lolita - Vladimír Nabokov - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Výstřední zpověď čtyřicátníka Humberta Humberta o jeho zničující erotické posedlosti kouzlem „nymfičky“ Dolores Hazeové vzbudila krátce po svém vzniku bouři odporu i nemístná očekávání, aby pak zajistila svému autorovi celosvětový věhlas. Postupně

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2) (Pushkin Aleksandr)(Paperback)

Vladimir Nabokov's famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin When Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov's witty and exhaustive commentary. Presented here in its

Ada aneb Žár - Vladimír Nabokov

Příběh jednoho z Nabokovových nejhlubších i nejhravějších románů sleduje peripetie vztahu jeho protagonistů, psychologa a profesora filozofie Vana Veena a jeho sestřenice (ve skutečnosti, jak se ukáže, sestry) Ady, od prvního vzájemného milostného okouzlení přes sérii