Metaphysics of memory in autobiographical texts by Vladimir Nabokov

Abstract

The article is divoted to the specificity of Nabokov’s autobiographical writings. As it is shown, their characteristic features are determined by biographical conceptualism, which makes it possibile for the writer to explain philosophy of his own perception and to evaluate the reality. In this way Nabokov also presented the key categories of his life’s and author’s hierarchy. What is worth mentioning, in his autobiographical texts Nabokov concentrated on emphasizing individual and subjective aspects that had influenced his author’s consciousness.