Littératures, 1941-1958
Vladimir Nabokov citations célèbres
Cette citation est extraite de la nouvelle Le Mot qui parut pour la première fois en langue française en 2010.
Le Mot, 1923
“Toutes les hygiènes connaissent leur hyène.”
L'Enchanteur, 1939
Vladimir Nabokov Citations
Le Mot, 1923
L'Enchanteur, 1939
Littératures, 1941-1958
L'Enchanteur, 1939
Littératures, 1941-1958
Littératures, 1941-1958
Le Mot, 1923
Littératures, 1941-1958
Littératures, 1941-1958
Littératures, 1941-1958
Littératures, 1941-1958
Littératures, 1941-1958
In « La dame au petit chien » (1899).
Littératures, 1941-1958
Le Mot, 1923
Littératures, 1941-1958
À propos d'un ange.
Le Mot, 1923
Littératures, 1941-1958
L'Enchanteur, 1939
Littératures, 1941-1958
Vladimir Nabokov: Citations en anglais
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Source: Pale Fire (1962)
Source: Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
Contexte: To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
Interview with Herbert Gold, The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 4th series (1977), p. 107 ISBN 0-140-04543-0
Source: Letters to Vera
“I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.”
Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“All religions are based on obsolete terminology.”
Source: Pale Fire
“do what only a true artist can do… pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation”
Source: Pale Fire
“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Source: Lolita
“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”
Source: Lolita