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Nabokov Novel The Theme Of Love, Of,

Posted on:2009-08-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D W LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360242994466Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Vladimir·Nabokov (1899-1977), one of the most famous writers after the second world war, and also occupies an important position in American literature history even in the whole world literature history. He achieved high success in novels, poems, dramas, translations, and so on. However, famous for Lolita , a novel has different praises and criticisms in European and American critics, he is also a serious writer with rich thoughts. Therefore, this paper attempts to inspect Nabokov's personal life experiences, analyze different love types in his novels and discuss the thoughts under these love types. This paper considers that the unique colorful texture exists in Nabokov's novels comes from his unique life experiences.In this paper, "Introduction", "text" and "conclusion" are three main components, of which the "Text" is divided into three parts.Introduction: A Review of Nabokov's life, fiction and creative profile at home and abroad on the status quo. At the same time, points out that love theme in the Nabokov's novel is still few some scholars addressed, and in fact this theme in Nabokov's novels occupy an important position, but also Nabokov's novel study a vital clue. This paper studies the focus of his love, has an important academic significance."Text" Part I: Flying around Russia's Siren bird. As a writer in exile, Nabokov is exiling abroad all his life, so, wandering, homesickness constantly appear in his works. Especially in the novels, such sentiments are reflected on the feelings of first love and he chose to describe the "reverse return home" to watch their own homeland. Meanwhile, Nabokov uses metonymy and metaphor to display his sense of the present drift.Part II: Break free of loneliness's color butterfly. Nabokov chooses drift in the foreign countries since it is doomed to drift from the loneliness will be accompanied by his life, and demonstrated that loneliness, the search for their release, while Nabokov affair brought about in the performance. The search for such a popular story behind the broad ideological, and Nabokov will leverage its description has always respected the details, thereby demonstration of his self-consciousness.Part III: Abnormal golden arrow through death. Loneliness in self-exile, Nabokov has experienced the death of his loved ones, and how to get out of this awareness of the impact of death, while Nabokov's classic parody of the traditional love story, in his description of the works on very state of incest love affairs, , homosexuality. In the secular understanding of love, Nabokov make the sense of death push the extreme, point out that true love can break the taboo secular, broke free from death, was eternal!Conclusion: Over the three parts of the body, the paper studies on the reasons of Nabokov's thinking from the perspective of life experiences, and make a detailed analysis of different types of love in his novels on the basis of art from the perspective of examining its aesthetic work "answers," and further demonstrated its unique ideology. Self-consciousness writing in the paper is running through the main line. We believe that the theme of love in Nabokov's writing is his performance in the unity of thinking, his works unique, and its associated unique artistic practices have also affected many later writers.
Keywords/Search Tags:Nabokov, Love, Self-consciousness
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