În pas cu Vladimir Nabokov: călătorie metanarativă în Lolita
Abreast of Vladimir Nabokov: A Metanarrative Journey into Lolita

Summary/Abstract: The American postmodernist novel draws mostly on re-reading and re-writing the grand narratives of literature; and subsequently, the traditional theme of travel – either as an initiatory journey, or as a conceptual theme – enters a new paradigm, by assuming a strong self-referential value and becoming, as a matter of fact, a structural motif debunking or playing on its traditional approach. Our study aims to demonstrate that Vladimir Nabokov’s travel theme, as configured in his most controversial novel, Lolita, part II, draws on the postmodernist literary paradigm, envisaging the voyage as an extended framework juxtaposing both autobiographical references and intertextual structures. We seek to deconstruct the particularly complex configuration of a metanarrative travel by addressing its autobiographical, transmodal and intertextual connections, while exposing the critical tensions (particularly those prompted by Nabokov’s lepidopteral pursuits) which contribute to this exemplary structure. Our approach engages in the identification and analysis of allegorical devices employed in the construction of a journey into corporeality, as well as of those building an intertextual network of pictorial and cinematic descriptions of the American landscape.

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