Study On Nabokov’s Literary Criticism

Nabokov was famous for the contribution of novel creation and the stylisticinnovation in twentieth century. He considered himself that was not a talkative childwho was both good at the talent of novelists and critics.Nabokov’s literary criticismhas a sharp Personality.He was contempt to Sartre, Freud, Faulkner and others.Hehad the courage of burst all the "vulgar" atmosphere in literary criticism,which left adeep impression in history.Relative to the novel creation, Nabokov showed more directly about his view ofliterature or criticism in lot of his criticism text. Nabokov red the world as apotentially novel.There were always a lot of unreal things suddenly been exposed inthe real world.And there were no doubt that there were full of unreal things in ourreal world. We should not doubt that the greatest novel was the “myths”. Nabokovdidn’t do some empirical investigation in the work of art for the purpose of findingsome real things. The creative of Nabokov was that he could makes objects ofcriticism with his personality.In the book of 《nicolas·gogol》, the characters in thenovel had been drawn into another picture which is different from other books.Afterhe research on kafka’s novel,he found that the personage whose name was Gerry gorefinally been turned out to be a cockroach. Sometimes his literary criticism likes aprecise science experiments.The creativity of Nabokov’s literary criticism not only reflected in the study ofcharacters, but also in such as form, structure, language, skills which involve all ofthese criticism category. Nabokov’s literary criticism is a process of seeking thebeauty of literature.He left criticism rich in exquisite texture beauty. Once there weresome scholars considered that Nabokov’s literary criticism was under the concretepractice of the new criticism.However, intentionally or unintentionally,his criticismreflect the significance of man’s existence has already put his criticism shed a simpleformalism.He tried to search of beauty in books. So it is import for us to deepen theunderstanding of Nabokov’s literary criticism.