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О романе Владимира Набокова «Лолита»
About the novel by Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita"

Author(s): Erzsébet Kámán
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: novel; critical reception; symbolist prose; avant-garde prose; love; passion; female ideal; narrator; writer; novel text; portrayal of a child; the writer’s bilingualism;

Summary/Abstract: The critical reception of the novel “Lolita” today. Nabokov’s novels and contemporary Russian prose trends: symbolism, avant-garde. Nabokov and western literature. Love, passion, cult of the female in Russian art in the early 20th century. The novel’s child heroine. The novel’s problems of form: the role of the narrator and the writer in the text of the novel. The English and Russian versions of the novel.

  • Issue Year: 46/2001
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 395-407
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian