La memoria y la imaginación en las narraciones breves de Nabokov

Abstract

After the Bolshevik revolution, Nabokov's family was forced to leave Russia. This fact influenced the writer¿s literary work. There is a feeling of loss of the sense of time and a feeling of loss of all those things related to the old Russia. However, Vladimir Nabokov is not an autobiographical author. He is not just longing nostagically for his native land in his work. He mixesimagination and memories in an attempt to capture the past. Moreover, he defamiliarizes the narratological conventions as a way to detach himself from what he tells. His irony is another way of coming to terms with his past, and, above all, another way of playing with the reader.