2013-№4(41) Article 10

N.V. Dolgova

Traditions of people’s theatrical laughter culture in V.V. Nabokov ‘s novels  “Camera Obscura” and “Lolita”. p. 91-99.

UDC 809.1

The paper gives an insight into how the traditions of folk comedy and buffoonery are realized in V.V. Nabokov’s Russian novels “Camera Obscura” (originally written in Russian) and “Lolita” (self-translated into Russian). The paper focuses on the characters of Robert Horn and Clare Quilty, in which one can see some traits of a trickster, a clown, a buffoon. The paper also analyzes some comedy devices, for example, wearing a mask.

poetics, V.V. Nabokov’s novels, theatricality, folk comedy, buffoon

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