Though The Prison Of Time

Vladimir Nabokov was one of the most famous writers in the 20th century, whose reputation raised since his English novel Lolita became the best seller, however, his life full of legend experience deserved much more attention.Although Nabokov was born in Russia, he got excellent education of foreign language in early days, thanks to this, he can write in well versed English and become one of the rather rare writers who can use two languages and be successful. In addition, he is not only famous as a writer but also as a rhopalocera specialist. At about twenty years old, his life experienced a sharp turning, because of this, he cannot but leave his motherland and aristocrat life to exile in other countries. These affected his writing clearly, especially his view of time.The foreword of this theses make a summary, in order to show the readers an comprehensive investigation of Nabokov and the achievement in both abroad and home.The main body of this thesis concludes three chapters.The first chapter: Try to find out and summarize Nabokov's view of time, then explore the internal and external causation. The exile changes Nobokov's Weltanschauung, especially his view of time, besides, the use of others' theory (the most important is Henri Bergson's view of time) for reference also proves his theory. In Nabokov's opinion, time is an annular prison; everyone is the prisoner and cannot escape from the time prison. Though there is not a systematic theory of time, readers can find out the views that hidden in his works, for instance, the subject of exile, reminiscence and addictive swivet that being everywhere in his novels is the incorporation of his time views.The second chapter: Analyses Nabokov's novel Lolita which makes him famous, find out the specific views of time in this novel and explore its subject of time. This part will centralize on the text, analyses Humbert and Lolita's misinterpret of time. Humbert bears past in mind constantly and glorifies it to expose his entire life signification; Lolita yearns for the future and even not hesitates to exhaust her lifeful youth, however, both of them ignored the reality and now. Their actions trying to across now are quite naive and must be punished by fortune's wheel; in fact, this was right the root of their tragical lives.The third chapter: Mainly discuss the charming of art in Lolita. Though in Nabokov's opinion, time is a prison from where no one can escape, Lolita defeats time; it keeps attractive and gets a page in the history of literature. What is the weapon of Nabokov? What make Lolita live in readers' heart? It is art. Time always flow over, life will pass away, only the tree of art is evergreen. The charming of art is not only the only immortality Lolita and Humbert can share, but also spiritual treasure Nabokov offered to all the readers and researchers.Like a beautiful butterfly, Nabokov dancing freely in the immense sky. His graceful dancing steps and excellent postures attract not only Russians and Americans but people all over the word.