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Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.

Strazio e incanto, insieme a scintillante ironia, abbondano in Lolita, il romanzo più celebre di Nabokov che racconta la storia dell'ossessiva e fatale passione del professor Humbert Humbert per la "ninfetta" Dolores Haze. Motel dopo motel, la vicenda si snoda lungo le strade americane nella forma di una confessione onesta e disperata. Meraviglioso romanzo, ha ispirato l'omonimo film di Stanley Kubrick.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.

In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin’s, who, he discovers, is Mary’s husband....

From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these 68 tales — 14 of which have been translated into English for the first time - display all the shades of Nabokov’s imagination.

Albinus, un respetable crítico de arte, conoce a Margot, mucho más joven que él. Albinus queda prendado y abandona a su esposa y a su hija para fugarse con ella. Pero entonces irrumpe Axel Rex, un joven y cínico artista, examante de Margot. Se completa así el último vértice de un triángulo amoroso de fatales consecuencias. Tras sufrir un accidente que lo deja ciego, Albinus se retira a una casa aislada con Margot. Pero lo que no sabe es que allí se instala también Axel, que hace el amor con Margot y se pasea retadoramente desnudo ante Albinus, que oye pasos e intuye que algo extraño está sucediendo.

Nos hallamos ante una obra maestra, un tour de force; una novela originalísima, desconcertante y diabólicamente divertida, que figura entre las preferidas de su propio autor y en la que refulge, de forma inigualable, su alambicada ironía y su mortífero humor. "Pálido fuego" se presenta como...

Der Zufall will es, dass sich Viktor und die schöne Nina über fünfzehn Jahre lang an den verschiedensten Orten der Welt immer wieder begegnen: in Moskau, in Berlin und nun in Fialta auf der Krim. Nina ist für Viktor, der seine Familie zu Hause gelassen hat, die große Liebe. Doch auch Nina ist verheiratet, mit einem französisch-ungarischen Schriftsteller, der zu Viktors Missvergnügen ebenfalls in Fialta ist. Schon in diesem Frühwerk, gelesen von Dietmar Mues, scheinen Nabokovs Witz und sein scharfer Verstand durch, die ihn später mit "Lolita" zu einem Star der Weltliteratur machen sollten.

La cumbre de la carrera de Nabokov: una de las más bellas, complejas e imaginativas visiones de la pasión amorosa que haya dado la literatura moderna. Publicada por Nabokov al cumplir setenta años, "Ada o el ardor" supone la felicísima cúspide de su larga y brillante carrera literaria.

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La primera edicion de "Lolita" apareció en París en 1955, publicada por Olympia Press, una editorial con acreditada gama de pornográfica. La novela fue prohibida en Francia y en Inglaterra, y hasta tres años más tarde no pudo publicarse en Estados Unidos. Aunque enseguida fue muy alabada por escritores como Lionel Trilling y Graham Greene, los adjetivos de "escandalosa", "inmoral", "decadente" y "ultrajante" acompañaron largo tiempo a "Lolita", actualmente ya considerada como una obra maestra indiscutible de la literatura universal.

Lolita, der både er en af de mest berømte og mest kontroversielle romaner i det 20. årh., fortæller om den midaldrende intellektuelle europæer Humbert Humberts fatale erotiske besættelse af den 12 årige forførende amerikanske nymfe Dolores. Det er historien om en tragisk og grufuld kærlighed fortalt med et både hjerteskærende og ætsende vid. Et studie i erotisk besættelse.

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.

" Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride.... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...." (Martin Amis)

Als der vierzigjährige Arthur im Park ein Mädchen beim Rollschuhfahren beobachtet, fühlt er sich sofort zu ihm hingezogen. Um dem Kind näherzukommen, heiratet er kurz darauf dessen schwerkranke Mutter. Doch diese scheint seine wahren Beweggründe zu erahnen und gibt die Tochter in eine Pflegefamilie. Erst nach ihrem Tod kann Arthur die Stieftochter zu sich holen. Die Erfüllung seiner Wünsche scheint zum Greifen nah - bis er selbst zum Opfer seines verbotenen Verlangens wird.

As intricate as a house of mirrors, Nabokov’s last novel is an ironic play on the Janus-like relationship between fiction and reality. It is the autobiography of the eminent Russian-American author Vadim Vadimovich N. (b. 1899), whose life bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, though the two are not to be confused (?).