«Идеальная нагота»
"Perfect Nudity"

Summary/Abstract: In the works of Nabokov there is a combination of scryptography of symbols that the writer uses in an ambivalent way—playing with them (in the high, psychologic sense of the play also as ritual) and exploiting them as polygenetic symbols with different referent sources (Jewish Bible, Egypt, New Testament, antiquity, Dante, Cabala, alchemy, freemasonry). The article shows in a parallel investigation of the Russian and the English texts of the short story how the fantastique way from a museum in France to the native town of the hero, to Russia, due to the broad variety of intertextual allusions, motives and invariants of Nabokov’s oeuvre can be understood as a ritual transition through the “underworld” to an “other world”.

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