“Urban Text” in Nabokov’s 1920s Works: St. Petersburg vs Berlin
Journal: Russian Studies in Philology
Year: 2024

Aim. To analyse the poetics of the “urban text” in V. V. Nabokov's poetic and prose works in the 1920s.. Methodology. The main content is consideration of the “metageographic” aspects of Nabokov’s poetry and short prose, in which images of St. Petersburg and / or Berlin appear. The research uses biographical, comparative, cultural-historical methods of analysis. Results. The analysis showed that in the first half of the 1920s Nabokov’s Petersburg not only appears in artistically reinterpreted me