ANALYSIS OF POETICS OF DUAL WORLD IN NABOKOV’S WORKS: THE CASE STUDY OF SHORT STORY “CLOUD, CASTLE, LAKE”

Abstract

The paper takes a short story “Cloud, Castle, Lake” as an example to analyze relations of space and time in Nabokov’s travel theme works. By observing the means of building a dual world in Nabokov’s works, and the inheritable relationship between Nabokov’s works and Tyutchev’s poems, which are representative works of traditional Russian poetry about “nature”, this paper analyzes the relationship between homeland and foreign land, past and present, and the relationship between social life and this shore, nature and the other shore. In contrast, the natural world is the perfect world that the hero pursues. Therefore, the researcher concludes that Nabokov endows the hero with an ability to imagine, recall and subtly perceive the environment, enabling him to create his own fictional world. In this process, nature plays an important role, which is a symbol of otherworldliness.