Король, дама, валет

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In his second novel, published in Berlin in 1928, Nabokov moves away from the biographical and nostalgic tones of Mashenka and gives free rein to his imagination. It is “King, Queen, Jack” that marks the birth of the writer Nabokov (who is currently writing under the pseudonym V. Sirin), who will soon conquer first Europe and then America. The plot, as if taken from a low-grade pulp novel, is just a cover for a sophisticated game with the reader. Its heroes are the most ordinary ones that you can meet, for example, in a train carriage. There, in fact, the reader gets acquainted with them, as if accidentally holding his gaze on this trinity. A rich husband, a mercantile wife and a poor relative. Naturally, according to the rules of a tabloid love story, both men are in love with the same woman. Through this banal love triangle, Nabokov, as if through a prism, examines all the basic fears, aspirations, sexual complexes and intellectual aspirations of a man at the beginning of the 20th century, who in fact is not very different from a man at the beginning of the 21st century.

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King, Queen, Jack

In his second novel, published in Berlin in 1928, Nabokov moves away from the biographical and nostalgic tones of Mashenka and gives free rein to his imagination. It is “King, Queen, Jack” that marks the birth of the writer Nabokov (who is currently writing under the pseudonym V. Sirin), who will soon conquer first Europe and then America. The plot, as if taken from a low-grade pulp novel, is just a cover for a sophisticated game with the reader. Its heroes are the most ordinary ones that you can meet, for example, in a train carriage. There, in fact, the reader gets acquainted with them, as if accidentally holding his gaze on this trinity. A rich husband, a mercantile wife and a poor relative. Naturally, according to the rules of a tabloid love story, both men are in love with the same woman. Through this banal love triangle, Nabokov, as if through a prism, examines all the basic fears, aspirations, sexual complexes and intellectual aspirations of a man at the beginning of the 20th century, who in fact is not very different from a man at the beginning of the 21st century.

В своем втором романе, вышедшем в Берлине в 1928 году, Набоков отходит от биографичности и ностальгических тонов “Машеньки” и дает волю фантазии. Именно “Король, дама, валет” знаменует рождение писателя Набокова (пишущего пока под псевдонимом В. Сирин), который вскоре покорит сначала Европу, а затем и Америку. Сюжет, словно бы взятый из низкопробного бульварного романа, – лишь прикрытие для изощренной игры с читателем. Герои его – самые обычные, которых можно встретить, например, в вагоне поезда. Там, собственно, читатель с ними и знакомится, словно бы случайно задержав свой взгляд на этой троице. Богатый муж, меркантильная жена и бедный родственник. Естественно, по правилам бульварного любовного романа, оба мужчины влюблены в одну женщину. Сквозь этот банальный любовный треугольник Набоков, как сквозь призму, рассматривает все основные страхи, чаяния, сексуальные комплексы и интеллектуальные устремления человека начала XX века, который на самом деле не слишком отличается от человека начала века XXI.

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Author

Владимир Набоков

ISBN

978-5-17-137832-5

Year of Publishing

2024

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