Changing the genre of the diary in V. Nabokov’s novel “Lolita”
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-3-45-51
Abstract
The article analyzes how the techniques of the novel genre in the “Lolita” by V. Nabokov change the primary speech genre of the diary. The point of view category is considered as a technique of genre formation. In that case, the intimacy of the text, which the diary genre implies, is violated by the presence of not only the point of view of the notes author but also the reader’s one. The reader, which the hero-narrator assumes, determines the manner of narration. The diary of Humbert Humbert takes on the features of fiction, and even isolated from the text of the novel, it will still have signs of a secondary speech genre.
About the Author
E. V. Shmeleva
Tver State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elizaveta V. Shmeleva, postgraduate student
bld. 70, Tchaikovsky Av., Tver, 170002
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For citations:
Shmeleva E.V. Changing the genre of the diary in V. Nabokov’s novel “Lolita”. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(3):45-51. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-3-45-51
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