Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” is not one of those works of the writer, which reveal a clear orientation to Dostoevsky. And yet, it has both obvious and rather hidden traces of the presence of this Russian classical writer’s images. Nabokov himself never mentioned Dostoevsky’s novel “The Adolescent”, however, his orientation at this novel is so significant that just not mentioning it by the writer anywhere and never seems to be very significant. In the development of the main plot conflict of his novel there are heroes and images inspired by the “Adolescent”. In the first of two articles on the echoes of “The Adolescent” in Nabokov’s novel, our attention was focused mainly on the commonality of some plot lines and images: Sebastian and their father in common with V., on the one hand, and Versilov, on the other, V. and Arkady Dolgoruky, the first wife of Sebastian’s father Virginia and the first wife of Versilov Fanariotova, Claire’s friend Miss Pratt’s and Arkadiy’s “aunt” Tatyan
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)185-192
JournalНОВЫЙ ФИЛОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ВЕСТНИК
Issue number2 (53)
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • "The Adolescent", "The Gambler", "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight", "Игрок", "Подлинная жизнь Себастьяна Найта", "Подросток", Dostoevsky, english, intertextual, literature, Nabokov, novel, russian, англоязычный, достоевский, интертекстуальный, литература, набоков, роман, русский

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