Forfeit, Pursuit And Surmounting

Nabokov is a typical representative of the Russian groups exiled writers in the20 th century. Soviet Russia period, the age of 18, Nabokov, like many Russian intellectuals in exile, was forced to escape. In the foreign country for a long time, he must try to blend in a new living environment, write in English, but he with many exiled intellectuals create a new world of culture and art. In the United States,Nabokov's novels have been successful, his English novels, which pursue native literary tradition, combine native literary tradition and the modern American cultures.He beyond traditions, beyond himself, become the one of the greatest novelists in the United States since William Faulkner, he is one of the world use the bilingual writing genius writer in the 20 th century. Nabokov's English novels gain the world-famous success, because of his novels in Russian classical art and modern western art, is the verve of Russian literature and American culture elements of penetration. He extracted from the American life of the subject of creation as long as20 years, show the American culture, depicting the image of American intellectuals.He is not blindly pursue native literary tradition, but in the verve of contains the native literary tradition, joined the "Nabokov type" of innovation. He is under the influence of Russian classic literature rhetoric art, and American literature in the popular post-modern art gimmick, pay attention to the innovation of the novel's structure and language, make oneself of the literary creation in the forefront of the reform. Through his English novels, which can realize the verve of Russian literature,and understand the American culture elements, and to appreciate its artistic style.In this thesis, I will use the method of social history criticism to analyze the writer's literary creation under the specific historical and cultural background. The main body of this thesis consists of three chapters. The chapter analyzes and discusses the creation of English novels by Nabokov.In the first chapter of this thesis, I will discuss the loss of Nabokov's home, The loss of home brought Nabokov painful and helpless, but also gained a new final fame.The second chapter mainly discusses Nabokov's pursuit of the traditional Russian literature, including the image of "little people", the exploration of moral themes, the description of the love situation, etc. Nabokov did not forget the motherland and his mother tongue, his English novels have not been cut off and the traditional Russian literature tradition.The third chapter mainly discuss Nabokov's English novels in the integration of Russian classic good art and western modern culture of transcendence. Nabokov eventually did not return to their homeland, but motherland language, memory, or others always in his life.Although Nabokov reluctantly gave up mother tongue writing, he did not give up the traditional literature. His works let us experience the spirit of Russian literature, and saw the modern elements, eventually he became the greatest writer.