2013 # 1 (1)
Zlochevskaya A.V.
And again about the mystery of the Сhernyshevsky’s image in Nabokov’s «The Gift»
Abstract
The article deals with the Nabokov’s interpretation of Chernyshevsky’s image (and the phenomenon such a personality) in the novel «Dar» («The Gift»). The original genre of it is compared with the Nabokov’s autobiographic novels «Drugije berega» («Other Shores»), «Priglashenije na kazn» («Invitation to a Beheading»), Turgenev’s «Otsty i deti» («Fathers and Sons»). The author analyses the system of the motives and images in the novel «Dar», its stylistic singularities, the problem of the correlation of the historical truth and artistic truth, of interaction of aesthetics and ideology.
Key words
Nabokov, Chernyshevsky, Turgenev, Pisarev, historical figures, play-actor, game, biography, sonnet, pamphlet, allusions, creation of life, metaphysical, ethical, factual