ГЛЕДАТИ АРЛЕКИНЕ ВЛАДИМИРА НАБОКОВА: УСПОМЕНЕ У ОГЛЕДАЛУ
TO LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV: MEMORIES IN THE MIRROR

Summary/Abstract: Events in the novel are given in a retrospective by the main character-narrator, with a twofold refraction of time, simultaneously synchronous and diachronous, from both the inside and the outside. The facts from the past and present are valued from positions of the future, as the writer’s parodied representative narrates far from youthful passion. This is also the reason why the summaries appear in places where pauses and isochronisms are to be expected in storytelling. The narrator stages them in places which distort the true biography. By its treatment of narrative time, Harlequins is completely different from all previous, and gives the impression of the light, buoyant and cruelly superior, mature style of Nabokov.

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