REVIEW OF THE BOOK “MNEMOSYNE’S GIFT. NABOKOV’S NOVELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRADITION” BY B. V. AVERIN
Abstract
The review offers a detailed description of the book “Mnemosyne’s Gift. Nabokov’s Novels in the Context of the Russian Autobiographical Tradition” by B. V. Averin. B. V. Averin’s work is devoted to the autobiographical genre in the Russian literature, its features, and also represents a deep analysis of the majority of V. Nabokov’s works from the point of view of autobiographical art. The book covers the main theoretical problems of the autobiographical genre: three-side unity of the author, the intermediate position of autobiographical texts, the multiple “I” phenomenon, the classification of certain types of autobiography, the analysis of the autobiographical creativity of different authors.
References
- Аверин Б. В. Дар Мнемозины. Романы Набокова в контексте русской автобиографической традиции. СПб.: Пальмира; Книга по Требованию, 2016. 399 с.
- Гончарова Е. А., Нюбина Л. М. Я - ТЕКСТ - МИР. СПб.: Политехника-сервис, 2016. 211 с.
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- Received: December 18, 2018.
- Published: February 10, 2019.
Keywords
- автобиография
- повествовательная перспектива
- триединство автора
- амбивалентность
- фактологичность
- фикциональность
- множественность «Я»
- autobiography
- narrative perspective
- author’s three-side unity
- ambivalence
- facts representation
- fictional character
- multiple “I” phenomenon
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