블라지미르 나보꼬프의 소설 창작기법에 나타난 러시아문학의 전통 = A Study on the Russian Literary Tradition in the Novelistic Techniques of Vladimir Nabokov

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The aim of this paper is not to argue about metaphysical aspects in the novels of Nabokov. Nor does it aim to dismantle the uprising view that Vladimir Nabokov is first and foremost a Russian writer. What we are trying to show here instead is the 19th Russian literature or literary tradition as appears in the prose works and novelistic techniques of Vladimir Nabokov.
Any study on the great tradition of the 19th century Russian literature replete with diverse literary techniques shall never be complete. The prose works of Nabokov, whether written in English or in Russian, recreates not a few aspects of the Golden Age of Russian literature, the process of which well signifies the nature of literature in the coming age. Besides Nabokov, by creating the original novelistic techniques, enriches the potentiality of the great tradition as the one which people never knew before. In this sense Nabokov is to be the continuation of the non-realism line from Pushkin-Lermontov-Gogol up to the Russian Symbolists, from which tradition he had learned a lot.
We look through from his first novel Mashenka to the last novels in English Pale Fire and Ada, focusing on the novelistic techniques. We examine what Nabokov shares in common with his contemporary writers in the Soviet Union at the beginning of his career, motifs he borrowed from Pushkin or Tolstoy, and what Nabokov has created by use of the suzhet line of Evgenii Onegin in his best known novel Lolita.
Different from the widespread view that Nabokov is from the literary tradition of the west and the criticisms of his novel as post-modern to the core, what we are trying to argue is the fact that he is one of the best stylists who has mastered the novelistic grammar of the 19th century Russian literature. What is more important is the originality and potentiality of Nabokovian grammar. What he reproduces by means of his own style is a world of untrodden part of the great tradition. And all through these novelistic methods, Nabokov shows what literature is to be like in the forthcoming century. He shows the meaning of language or multi-languageness in a novel, the meaning of border or borderlessness of literature, and finally the possibility of the art of language beyond place and time.