LIFE AS A MEMORY IN THE PROSE OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV Cover Image

ЖИВОТЪТ КАТО СПОМЕН В ПРОЗАТА НА ВЛАДИМИР НАБОКОВ
LIFE AS A MEMORY IN THE PROSE OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Author(s): Lora Dinkova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Keywords: memory; Russia; homeland; reality; life.

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: This article focuses on researching how projections of the past serve to inform the present in many of Vladimir Nabokov's texts. It turns out that life "here and now" in some of the novels of the Russian writer depends on the memories (and the act of remembering) of his characters, i.e. fictitious, untrue. On the one hand, the reality in his prose is completely supplementary to the feeling of fiction, and on the other it repeatedly refutes this, showing various niches through which it is possible not only to construct reality but also to preserve life, despite the cataclysms of time (and history).

  • Issue Year: 7/2021
  • Issue No: 2 (14)
  • Page Range: 168-177
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian