The concept of “estate” in the autobiographical prose of Vladimir Nabokov

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Classification – name: Literary studies
Author: Nadezhda S. Stepanova
Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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Language of the publication: Russian
Type of document: Monograph
Collection: Russian Estate and Europe: Diachrony, Nostalgia, Universalism
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0623-9-235-245
Year of publication: 2020
Place of publication: Moscow
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Stepanova N.S. The concept of “estate”in the autobiographical prose of Vladimir Nabokov

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Nadezhda S. Stepanova (Kursk, Russia), DSc in Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Russian language and General educational disciplines for foreign citizens, Southwest State University.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6834-5361.

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the role and participation of the Russian noble estate as a way of life in the formation of personality on the material of the Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiographical prose. In the literary space of the writer’s texts the world of the Russian estate appeared as one of the key symbols of Russia, as a lost value and an integral part of Russian culture, literature, philosophy, history, necessary for self-identification, self-knowledge and self-preservation.

Keywords: Vladimir Nabokov, “Drugie berega” (“Other Shores”), estate, concept, autobiographical prose, literature of the first wave of Russian emigration, family, childhood, the Russian soul.

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