ALLUSIONS TO RUSSIAN POETRY IN V. NABOKOV’S NOVEL “BEND SINISTER”
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DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2024-3-118-130
The goal of the research is to investigate the strategies of V. Nabokov's interpretation of Russian poetry in his novel “Bend Sinister”. Using the structural semiotics method, we distinguish the allusions to A. S. Pushkin's, A. A. Fet's, J. Goethe's, V. A. Zhukovsky's, B. L. Pasternak's poems. Images and motives from their works 1) organize the composition of the novel; 2) represent a plot about the creation of a fictional world by the narrator; 3) explicate the reading experience of Russian-language author and his artistic identity. Allusions also allow Nabokov to compare the literary genres and its syncretism in his own aesthetical system.
Key words: “Bend Sinister”, V. Nabokov, Russian poetry, allusion, literary genre, intertextuality, phenomenology of art, classical literature
Acknowledgment: the research was funded by Russian Science Foundation, project number
23-78-01025, https://rscf.ru/en/project/23-78-01025/
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