Exploring Vladimir Nabokov's Creative Universe: Themes and Devices

Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe offers a fresh perspective on certain aspects of Nabokov’s creative universe. The analysis begins with the writer’s faith, viewed as the bedrock of his ethics. Consequently, all other themes discussed in Part I, from moral dilemmas to cruelty to animals, emanate from this source and intertwine into a unique moral system. A moralist but not a moralizer, Nabokov encouraged his readers, with whom he conducts a creative dialogue, to form their own ...