Shifts. Patterns of Nabokova prose. Heteni Zh.

Before the reader is a thematic collection of Russian -language articles of the Hungarian researcher Zhuzh Heten.

The author introduces the term “Erotect” and puts the erotic motives of Nabokov in the context of pornography, ecstasy, myths, otherworldity, nomadism and libertinism.

It considered the phenomena of borders in the broad sense - in the topos of initiation, in the act of memoirs, in the synesthetic perception of the language and in connection with vulgarity and totalitarian regimes.

The study puts Nabokov in the world context, from Homer And Dante to Lermontov, Pasternak and Harms, in an attempt to open “Some closed boxes of the large desk of Nabokov’s work.”