A Little Touch to the Theme “Nabokov and Dostoevsky”

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Pages: 63-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/URMN5253

Abstract:

The present text aims to focus on a curious episodic presence of Dostoevsky in Nabokov’s final Russian novel, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡 (1938). In this novel, in a few sentences, three Russian writers of the 19th century – Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky and Nekrasov – are brought together and portrayed in an ironic light against the background of the famous May fires of 1862 in Saint Petersburg.

Keywords:

V. Nabokov; 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡; F. Dostoevsky; N. Chernyshevsky; N. Nekrasov; intertextuality; May fires of 1862 in Saint Petersburg

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