The Nonidentical Twin: The Possible Worlds of Nabokov’s <i>Speak, Memory and Look at the Harlequins!</i>
Journal: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
Year: 2023

Abstract The article examines how Vladimir Nabokov probes the boundaries between autobiography and fiction in his autobiography, Speak, Memory , and his last finished novel, Look at the Harlequins! Both autobiographies and first-person novels project possible worlds, that is, alternative perspectives on empirical reality. The Nabokov of Speak, Memory and V.V. in Look at the Harlequins! are both focalizers in possible worlds derived from the historical Nabokov’s empirical reality. The common orig