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《透明》（Transparent Things）是弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的一部小说，出版于1972年。最初用英文写成。
情节
这部短篇小说讲述了美国青年编辑休·佩尔森的故事，以及他近二十年来四次到瑞士一个小村庄旅行的记忆。
摘要
年轻人第一次访问这个村，和他的父亲。在他的第二次旅行中，佩尔森的出版社派他去采访天才而古怪的作家R。他的第三次行程包括了悲剧、谋杀和疯狂。最后，佩尔森的第四次旅行提供了一个机会，来反思他动荡的过去。在叙述佩尔森的故事时，叙述者通过时间、爱情、作者和记忆的形而上学的主题引导读者。
评论
在纽约时报书评上，作家马维斯·加兰特写道，“弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫,花了他一生的时间建造泰姬陵，在73岁时决定建造一个小型的模拟复制品，—供他本人娱乐，偶然也供我们的娱乐。这个缩影没有缺陷，没有，但是这个伟大模型最辉煌的特征，只是略有点模样，几乎是出于嬉戏。”加兰特发现这部小说“像纳博科夫的天才一样随意、不可预测、古怪和令人生畏。” "
以上文字摘自维基百科「透明 (小说)」（去掉了参考文献等尾部小节），按 CC BY-SA 4.0 使用，作者为维基百科的各位编者。
中文维基百科的条目比较短，下面附上英文维基百科的内容（英文原文）：
Transparent Things is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1972. It was originally written in English.
Plot summary
The short novel tells the story of Hugh Person, an American literary editor and proofreader, and his four trips to and from Switzerland over the course of almost two decades.
Synopsis
Hugh Person first visits Switzerland as a young man with his father, who dies during the trip. A number of years later, Person undertakes a second trip on behalf of his publisher in order to liaise with R., a gifted if leisurely and eccentric author. In the process, he also makes the acquaintance of Armande, whom he later marries and moves to New York with. His third trip is taken in an attempt to persuade R. to make alterations to his latest manuscript, Tralatitions, which the author refuses to do, while Armande, who has come along with Hugh, is too late to see her dying mother one last time. After the two return, Person proofreads and edits R.'s contentious manuscript, and goes to bed with Armande. The police interrupt in order to interview him, and he tells them of having dreamt of the house being on fire as he restrained a series of flickering images of his companion, alternatingly Armande and other women he has known, from leaping out of it. Finally, Hugh visits and wanders through Switzerland alone, stopping by Armande's childhood home and the hotels the two have previously stayed in, having spent the past several years in a string of hospitals after having strangled Armande in a what Person claims to remember only as a state of particularly deep sleep, having since childhood been prone to episodes of sleepwalking aided only by inducing himself into dreams of playing tennis. A fire breaks out in the hotel Person is in and kills him as the author, or authors, of the tale ease him into the new state.
Critical reception
In The New York Times Book Review, writer Mavis Gallant wrote, "Vladimir Nabokov, having spent his life building the Taj Mahal, has decided at the age of 73—for his own amusement and incidentally for our pleasure—to construct a small mock replica. The miniature is not flawed, no, but the most splendid features of the great model have been just slightly parodied, out of playfulness almost." Gallant found the short novel to be "as casual, as unpredictable, as eccentric and as daunting as Mr. Nabokov's genius."
以上文字摘自英文维基百科「Transparent Things (novel)」（去掉了参考文献等尾部小节），按 CC BY-SA 4.0 使用，作者为维基百科的各位编者。
资料卡
- 原题
- Transparent Things
- 原作语言
- 英语
- 首次出版
- 1972 年 10 月 13 日
- 作品形式
- 长篇小说
- 首发于
- 新青年
- 首版出版社
- 标普全球
- 主题
- 过去、怀旧
资料卡来自 Wikidata Q3213249（CC0），众包数据，个别字段可能不全。
