Árnyék a szív mögött. Jegyzetek Nabokov szerelem-felfogásáról és az olvasás szenvedélyérõl
A Shadow behind the Heart. Notes on Nabokov's Conception of Love and Passion of Reading

Summary/Abstract: The essay examines Nabokov's first major work in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, describing some of the intertextual games, allusions and resemblances in the text, and explaining why and how this ''machinery of literature'' and his own misconstrucions cause both the narrator's and the reader's failure in the course of his searching for hte secret love affair between his half-brother, Sebastian and an unknown Russian person. Then, the essay deals with the ''shadow story'' of the novel's plot through the interpretation of the autobiographical refernces to homosexuality of Nabokov's own younger brother, Sergei. The essay ends with a brief comparison of Tolstoy's ethical-esthetical principles and nabokovian poetical beliefs, with an emphasis on the problems of ''enchantment and deception'' in art.

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