EXILED NABOKOV AND HIS AUDIENCE

Abstract

When talking about Nabokov as an expatriate, it should be understood that he was exiled from Soviet Russia and that his fiction expresses the reactions of the disappeared world as a means of compensation for leaving home unplanned. Even though “exile” usually evokes negative thoughts – loss, rejection, denial, misfortune and hardship – it can also be liberating. Nabokov is an example of an exiled writer who enjoyed having a whole new world in front of him to study, to use it as a mirror to confront the old world and his past. His fiction, in general, seems to prove it.