At the intersection of Pushkin and Gogol streets: reception of artistic creativity of Russian classics in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “The Gift”

Abstract

An article is devoted to identifying the specifics of the author’s reception of Pushkin and Gogol’s creativity in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “The Gift”. It is shown that the text of a composition clearly reveals the presence of Pushkin and Gogol’s aesthetic markers concentrated mainly within the second and the third chapter of “The Gift”. The novel is read as a deliberate attempt by Vladimir Nabokov in the way of correlation with the aesthetics of chosen classics to give a reflection of essential characteristics of his own writing that can represents as a synthetic phenomenon, has incorporated, while maintaining the individual author bases, many elements of other aesthetic systems.