| Titre | Эшафот в Хрустальном Дворце : О романе Вл. Набокова Приглашение на казнь | |
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| Auteur | Nora Buhks | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 35, no 4, octobre-décembre 1994 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 821-838 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Nora Buhks, A scaffold in the Crystal Palace : in connection with the novel of Vl. Nabokov, Priglashenie na kazn' (Invitation to a beheading). The novel Priglashenie na kazn' was written in 1934, while Nabokov was working on Don (The gift), or, more precisely, after he had finished "The life of Chernyshevskii" which was to become the chapter IV of the novel. The relationship between this text and that of Priglashenie na kazn ' is not limited to a simple contiguity within the chronology of the literary creation : from the point of view of their themes as well as their subjects and structure, the two books constitute a diptych : both are parodies — one of the hero condemned by society, the other of society condemning the hero. On basis of the comparative analysis of both texts, the article comes to the conclusion that Priglashenie na kazn ' is a parodie achievement of the Utopia described in Chernyshevskii 's novel Chto delať, the main character — an idealist philosopher — is a parodical replica of Chernyshevskii himself. The dramatic fate of Cincinnatus is similar to that of Chernyshevskii but in the conditions of the ideal society invented by the author ; it discloses the fateful deficiency of the ideal, while serving as a basis at the structural level of the organic unity of the subject in Nabokov's romantic diptych. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1994_num_35_4_2409 |
