内容説明
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. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up 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. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
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内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
本書には、白痴的で卑劣な体制に直接起因するある反映が認められる。独裁政治や拷問の世界、ファシストやボルシェヴィキ、俗物思想家やブーツを覆いた乱暴者たちの世界の反映が。…主要なテーマは、愛に満ちたクルークの心の鼓動、深いやさしさが蒙りやすい苦悩である。
内容（「MARC」データベースより）
独裁的警察国家で、運命を弄ばれる主人公クルークと息子。やがて魔の手が息子を人質にとり…。ナボコフの品切書の中でもっともリクエストが多い、愛についての美しいファンタジー。86年サンリオSF文庫の新訳。
Book Description
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. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up 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. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
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著者について
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins.
The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri.
Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in English. In his afterword to Lolita he claimed: "My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses--the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions--which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way." [p. 317] Yet Nabokov's American period saw the creation of what are arguably his greatest works, Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。
The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri.
Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in English. In his afterword to Lolita he claimed: "My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses--the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions--which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way." [p. 317] Yet Nabokov's American period saw the creation of what are arguably his greatest works, Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。
著者略歴 (「BOOK著者紹介情報」より)
ナボコフ,ウラジーミル
サンクト・ペテルブルグに生まれる。裕福な家庭環境で育ったが、ロシア革命時に一家でロシアを脱出。ケンブリッジ大学を卒業後、ベルリン次いでパリにおいて亡命生活を送る。その間に『キング、クィーン、ジャック』(1928年)、『暗箱』(1932年)、『絶望』(1936年)等によってロシア語作家としての地位を築く。1940年、ナチス・ドイツの侵攻直前にパリを脱出、アメリカに移る。英語作家に転身、大学で教えながら『セバスチャン・ナイトの真実の生涯』(1941年)、『賜物』(ロシア語版1952年、英語版1963年)等を発表。代表作『ロリータ』(1955年)によって世界的な名声を得て後は、スイスに移って著作に専念。『青白い炎』(1962年)、『アーダ』(1969年)等を発表。鱗翅目研究者としても知られる
加藤 光也
1948年、秋田県に生まれる。1971年、一橋大学法学部卒業。1975年、東京都立大学大学院人文科学研究科英文学専攻博士課程中退。現在東京都立大学人文学部教授。編著に『今日の世界文学』(放送大学教育振興会、1994年)、訳書にジュリアン・バーンズ『太陽をみつめて』(白水社、1992年)、アンジェラ・カーター『夜ごとのサーカス』(図書刊行会、2000年)など(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)
サンクト・ペテルブルグに生まれる。裕福な家庭環境で育ったが、ロシア革命時に一家でロシアを脱出。ケンブリッジ大学を卒業後、ベルリン次いでパリにおいて亡命生活を送る。その間に『キング、クィーン、ジャック』(1928年)、『暗箱』(1932年)、『絶望』(1936年)等によってロシア語作家としての地位を築く。1940年、ナチス・ドイツの侵攻直前にパリを脱出、アメリカに移る。英語作家に転身、大学で教えながら『セバスチャン・ナイトの真実の生涯』(1941年)、『賜物』(ロシア語版1952年、英語版1963年)等を発表。代表作『ロリータ』(1955年)によって世界的な名声を得て後は、スイスに移って著作に専念。『青白い炎』(1962年)、『アーダ』(1969年)等を発表。鱗翅目研究者としても知られる
加藤 光也
1948年、秋田県に生まれる。1971年、一橋大学法学部卒業。1975年、東京都立大学大学院人文科学研究科英文学専攻博士課程中退。現在東京都立大学人文学部教授。編著に『今日の世界文学』(放送大学教育振興会、1994年)、訳書にジュリアン・バーンズ『太陽をみつめて』(白水社、1992年)、アンジェラ・カーター『夜ごとのサーカス』(図書刊行会、2000年)など(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)
