Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov: Frasi in inglese

Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov era scrittore, saggista e critico letterario russo. Frasi in inglese.
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“The heating system was a farce, depending as it did on registers in the floor wherefrom the tepid exhalations of a throbbing and groaning basement furnace were transmitted to the rooms with the faintness of a moribund's last breath.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Fuoco pallido

Pale Fire (1962)

“I certainly do speak Russian. You see, it was the fashionable language par excellence, much more than French, among the nobles of Zembla at least.”

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Pale Fire (1962)

“Philistinism implies not only a collection of stock ideas but also the use of set phrases, clichés, banalities expressed in faded words. A true philistine has nothing but these trivial ideas of which he entirely consists.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lezioni di letteratura russa

Lectures on Russian Literature (1982)

“A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time. I have said "full-grown person" because the child or the adolescent who may look like a small philistine is only a small parrot mimicking the ways of confirmed vulgarians, and it is easier to be a parrot than to be a white heron. "Vulgarian" is more or less synonymous with "philistine": the stress in a vulgarian is not so much on the conventionalism of a philistine as on the vulgarity of some of his conventional notions. I may also use the terms genteel and bourgeois. Genteel implies the lace-curtain refined vulgarity which is worse than simple coarseness. To burp in company may be rude, but to say "excuse me" after a burp is genteel and thus worse than vulgar. The term bourgeois I use following Flaubert, not Marx. Bourgeois in Flaubert's sense is a state of mind, not a state of pocket. A bourgeois is a smug philistine, a dignified vulgarian.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Lezioni di letteratura russa

Lectures on Russian Literature (1982)

“What moment in that gradual decay
Does resurrection choose? What year?
Who has the stopwatch? Who rewinds the tape?
Are some less lucky, or do all escape?
A syllogism; other men die
But I am not another: therefore I'll not die.”

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Pale Fire (1962)

“A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)

“This brand of paper (used by macaroon makers) was not only digestible but delicious.”

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Pale Fire (1962)

“After Olympia Press, in Paris, published the book, an American critic suggested that Lolita was the record of my love affair with the romantic novel. The substitution "English language" for "romantic novel" would make this elegant formula more correct.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

As quoted in &quot;Nabokov&#x27;s Love Affairs&quot; by R. W. Flint http://www.powells.com/review/2003_07_17.html in The New Republic (17 June 1957). <br class="br">On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956)

“For we die every day; oblivion thrives”

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Pale Fire (1962)

“The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

Problems of translation (1955).

“"What!" cried Bretwit in candid surprise, "They know at home that His Majesty has left Zembla?"”

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Pale Fire (1962)

“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.”

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Vladimir Nabokov libro Strong Opinions

On the ideas of Sigmund Freud, p. 66.
Strong Opinions (1973)