АКСИОЛОГИЯ ПЕРЦЕПТИВНОЙ ОБРАЗНОСТИ В МЕМУАРНОМ, ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОМ, КРИТИЧЕСКОМ ДИСКУРСЕ В. НАБОКОВА 1937-1940-Х ГГ.

Abstract

The article analyzes the perceptual imagery in V. Nabokov’s works of the French period (1937-1940s) prior to his movement to England and relocation to America. Research material is the texts in which the different discourses (memoir, artistic, critical) and situation of the perception (recollection, creation, reading) are combined: the necrologies On Khodasevich, [In Memory of A. O. Fondaminskaya], essays Literary Review, Pushkin, or the Real and the Plausible, autobiographical novel Mademoiselle O. Research methodology relays on the investigations which discuss Nabokov’s oeuvre as a macrotext in which artist’s individual perceptive experience is represented. The article scrutinizes the axiological and structural meaning of the sensorial images in Nabokov’s text of the French period. The characteristics of the perceptual imagery are drawn upon the connection between the image and the subject articulated his senses. The key peculiarity of the perceptual imagery in the works of the French period is that it creates the plot on observer changing his identity and conquer the boundaries of the perception by means of the other point of view. V. Nabokov considers the attention to the autonomic subject of perception as a key artistic value.