The review traces papers of the International conference V. Nabokov and
Transatlantic Relations in American and European culture hosted at Saint Petersburg
State University on May14–16, 2021. Scholars in various fields of humanities traced the
routes of intercontinental cultural contacts of the XX-th century to construct a global
context to understand Vladimir Nabokov as a paradigmatic transatlantic figure. The
main direction which was discussed in papers of D. Ioffe, T. Venediktova, G. Kruzhkov,
O. Panova, A. Astvatsaturov, O. Antsyferova, I. Golovacheva, A. Shvets, O. Sokolova,
traditionally turned out to be American and British. The Russian cultural context
viewed through the transatlantic prism was outlined by E. Penskaya, V. Feshchenko,
A. Rodionova, A. Masalov, Y. Probstein, C. Bernstein and by Marjorie Perloff. The
issues of transatlantic transfer in Romanesque literatures were presented in the papers
of L. Muravieva, A. Petrova, V. Popova and I. Khohlova. The speakers discussed
Franco-American autofiction, the images of Americans in the works of G. Apollinaire
and the history of Soviet-Latin American and Portuguese-American poetic contacts,
German and Scandinavian contexts viewed the in light of transatlantic problems.
Discussion of Vladimir Nabokov works summed up a kind of outcome of the conference
that brought together linguists (A. Kretov, Zh. Gracheva), historians of literature and
culture (D. Tokarev, A. Bolshev, N. Shcherbak, A. Stepanova, N.A. Karpov ), scholars
of poetics and narratology (F. Dvinyatin, V. Schmid, E. Kazartsev, D.Yu. Dovzhenko,
N.I. Emelyanova).