REVIEW OF THE BOOK "MNEMOSYNE’S GIFT. NABOKOV’S NOVELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRADITION" BY B. V. AVERIN
Nyubina Larisa Mikhailovna, Andreev Vadim Sergeevich
Smolensk State University
Submitted: 18.12.2018
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.
Русский
