Keyword: «nabokov»

The article examines the modernist interpretation of the theme of Christmas in V. Nabokov's short story "Christmas". The main idea here is the reincarnation (reincarnation) of the soul. After death, Sleptsov's child's soul transforms into a butterfly. Thus, the deceased child acquires the immortality of the soul through his rebirth in another body, and the father overcomes the pain of losing a loved one.

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of bilingualism in the works of V. Nabokov. The leading languages in the writer's work were Russian and English, each of which the writer assigns a certain role in shaping his artistic world. The linguistic specificity of the creative personality is determined and the analysis of the peculiarities of the peculiar linguistic consciousness that determines the importance of the bilingual cultural discourse of the Russian-American writer Nabokov is carried out.