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ISSN 2500-0802
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OPTICAL STRATEGIES OF NABOKOV: VISUALIZATION OF OTHER-WORLDLINESS IN THE NOVEL «THE GIFT»

Chakina L.L. 1
1 Saratov State Conservatory (academy) named L.V. Sobinov
This article studies the phenomenon of new visuality actualized in the verbal text of Nabokov’s novel «The Gift» revealing methods of creating a new clearly visible image of the world and man and defining special visual strategies which prove that imagery phenomenon created by Nabokov belongs to the new visuality. The author defines and analyzes two visual strategies – the method of indirect vision and the shift of focus. Nabokov uses one of the Renaissance techniques – split screen, which is a specific form of Nabokov’s most important method of indirect vision, realized at all levels of the text, and introduces a set of visual motifs such as mirrors, prismatic flicker of the author in the characters, reflections, inverted world and others. The shift of focus means transition from «the front end of the present» to the «far past», and to «even more far – future» Initial visual impression is like an impulse, giving rise to further memories, which are then turned in the work of art into eternal images. In addition, the link between category of other-worldliness and the phenomenon of new visuality is explored.