A Little Touch to the Theme “Nabokov and Dostoevsky” Cover Image

Малък щрих към темата „Набоков и Достоевски“
A Little Touch to the Theme “Nabokov and Dostoevsky”

Author(s): Mariana Shopova-Hristova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Russian Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: V. Nabokov; 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡; F. Dostoevsky; N. Chernyshevsky; N. Nekrasov; intertextuality; May fires of 1862 in Saint Petersburg

Summary/Abstract: The present text aims to focus on a curious episodic presence of Dostoevsky in Nabokov’s final Russian novel, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡 (1938). In this novel, in a few sentences, three Russian writers of the 19th century – Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky and Nekrasov – are brought together and portrayed in an ironic light against the background of the famous May fires of 1862 in Saint Petersburg.

  • Issue Year: 41/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-69
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English, Bulgarian