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Name: The semantics of Petersburg and the code of the Russian classics in Vladimir Nabokov's stories «Offenсe» and «Orach»

Authors: Mukhachev Dmitry Andreevich

Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper analyzes the implications of the Russian classics – A.S. Pushkin and M.Yu. Lermontov – in Vladimir Nabokov's stories «Offence» and «Orach» from the collected stories «Return of Chorba». The author finds out the role of references to works of the Russian classical literature in Nabokov's texts about his childhood in Petersburg and describes one of Nabokov's interpretations of Petersburg.

Keywords: nabokov, st.petersburg, childhood, pushkin, lermontov

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