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One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith," in 1928, can be looked at as a foreshadowing of his 1955 novel Lolita. However, in the author's notes, Nabokov states that "Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction," and that the poem was written "...to amuse a friend."
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THIRTY-NINE RUSSIAN POEMS
English
Russian
1.
The Rain Has Flown
Дождь пролетел
2.
To Liberty
К свободе
3.
I Still Keep Mute
Еще безмолвствую и крепну я в тиши
4.
Hotel Room
Номер в гостинице
5.
Provence
Солнце
6.
La Bonne Lorraine
7.
The Blazon
Герб
8.
The Mother
Мать
9.
I Like That Mountain
Люблю я гору
10.
The Dream
Сновидение
11.
The Snapshot
Снимок
12.
In Paradise
В раю
13.
The Execution
Расстрел
14.
For Happiness the Lover Cannot Sleep
От счастия влюбленному не спится
15.
Lilith
Лилит
16.
The Muse
К музе
17.
Soft Sound
Тихий шум
18.
Snow
Снег
19.
The Formula
Формула
20.
An Unfinished Draft
Неоконченный черновик
21.
Evening on a Vacant Lot
Вечер на пустыре
22.
The Madman
Безумец
23.
How I Love You
Как я люблю тебя
24.
L'Inconnue de la Seine
25.
At Sunset
На закате
26.
We So Firmly Believed
Мы с тобой так верили
27.
What Happened Overnight
Что за ночь с памятью случилось
28.
The Poets
Поэты
29.
To Russia
К России
30.
Oculus
Око
31.
Fame
Слава
32.
The Paris Poem
Парижская поэма
33.
No Matter How
Каким бы полотном батальным
34.
On Rulers
О правителях
35.
To Prince S.M. Kachurin
К князю С.М. Качурину
36.
A Day Like Any Other
Был день как день
37.
Irregular Iambics
Неправильные ямбы
38.
What Is the Evil Deed
Какое сделал я дурное дело
39.
From the Gray North
С серого севера
FOURTEEN ENGLISH POEMS
English
1
A Literary Dinner
2
The Refrigerator Awakes
3
A Discovery
4
The Poem
5
An Evening of Russian Poetry
6
The Room
7
Voluptates Tactionum
8
Restoration
9
The Poplar
10
Lines Written in Oregon
11
Ode to a Model
12
On Translating Eugene Onegin
13
Rain
14
The Ballad of Longwood Glen
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