The Key To Understanding Nabokov’s Fiction
<p>There are a lot of ideas and concepts which play specific role in Nabokov’s texts and it is impossible to outline all the multifaceted ideas and theories which were crucial for him in one post.</p>
<p>But still it might be helpful to know that Nabokov had a special attitude to patterns, combinations, illusion and illusiveness, concepts of fate, blindness and transparency, memory and the process of remembering, repetitions, phenomena of self-consciousness and shame, symmetry, ordered sequences, butterflies, puns (quite often — multilingual), texts inside other texts, etc. When reading Nabokov it is important to pay attention to all these things and try to understand the ideas which are hidden behind them — it can be very helpful in understanding of the text.</p>
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