THE STYLE OF NABOKOV, A SELF-PROCLAIMED "SEEKER OF WORD ADVENTURES"

Abstract

Nabokov’s phrase is mostly clear and not necessarily unusual but full of unusual images. Unlike Andrei Bely, J. Joyce, A. P. Platonov and even N. V. Gogol, he does not create his own other-lingua; what makes him unique is other-vision, i. e. the gift of discerning what is invisible for the rest. A special feature thereof is transformation of one kind of phenomena into another (human, animal’s, things’s, natural). Nabokov plays with words, syllables, letters, signs in a language game of his own.