Introduction
Introduction

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this book is to describe certain types of time, space and point-of-view construction in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction and to explore their modeling role in the artistic, philosophical and scientific discourses of the modernist and early postmodernist age. There exists a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research: Todorov’s The Grammar of the Decameron, Greimas’ Maupassant, Genette’s Narrative Discourse, Barthes’ S/Z, etc., — where the work of fiction serves as a test case for a theory or method. These studies aim at the elaboration of the taxonomies or models of more or less universal applicability. Although Genette’s specific focus of interest is Proust, he approaches Proust via the classical narrative tradition from the Odyssey to Stendhal. Proustian techniques often prove to be “anomalous” with respect to that tradition. The present study treats Nabokov’s fiction in the vein of postclassical narratology — as both an object and a tool of research.

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