EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS AND IMAGES IN V. NABOKOV’S CREATIVE WORK
Pogrebnaya Yana Vsevolodovna
Stavropol State Pedagogical Institute
Abstract. The article reveals the evolution of Nabokov’s views on religion, religious doctrines and religious symbols and images. In his early works, especially in lyrics, Nabokov interprets the Biblical stories and images, in particular the image of paradise, which gives grounds for identifying his religious orientation as Christian. However in his late works the search for paradise was replaced by providing evidences of an outworld existence - immortality. In the novel "Pale Fire" and in the unfinished novel "The Original of Laura" Nabokov gives a direct reference to Buddhism and path of reincarnation as a means to acquire immortality. So, religion for Nabokov comes out as a means and an instrument to choose a way to his own version of immortality.
Key words and phrases: антагонизм времени и вечности, топос рая, бессмертие, творческая эволюция, религиозная концепция, интерпретация, antagonism of time and eternity, topos of a paradise, immortality, creative evolution, religious conception, interpretation
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