V.V. Nabokov’s novel “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” and “The Gambler” by F.M. Dostoevsky
Journal: Philological Sciences Scientific Essays of Higher Education
Year: 2021

Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” is not one of those works of the writer, which reveal a clear orientation to Dostoevsky. And yet, it has both obvious and rather hidden traces of the presence of this Russian classical writer’s images. Although Nabokov himself never mentioned Dostoevsky’s novel “The Adolescent”, however, in the development of the main plot conflict of his novel there are characters and images inspired by this novel. At the same time, it is quite notice