Metaphysical Language Game and the Word-play Modality in V.Nabokov’s Novelism and Poetry

¹ FSAEI HE Industrial university of Tyumen, Department of Intercultural Communication, 625000 Tyumen, Russia
² FSAEI HE Tyumen State University, Department of Foreign Language and Intercultural Professional Communication, 625000 Tyumen, Russia

^* Corresponding author:helenprud@yandex.ru

Abstract

This article discusses the unique linguistic consciousness of V. Nabokov, formed in a multilingual environment. The method of philosophical interpretation of the text was used in V. Nabokov’s works analysis. It is revealed that in the multicultural environment V. Nabokov created an artful, nonstandard language by means of the original language game and word making and affecting, perhaps unconsciously, the logical and philosophical concept of Wittgenstein’s “language game”. The language of V. Nabokov’s poetry is defined as a way to destroy the experienced, but unwittingly resurrected, i.e., what can be considered experience and memories, and at the same time self-creation through poetry.However, early criticism of Nabokov-Sirin’s poetry is rather skeptical about the author’s ability to touch or express etaphysical aspects of life.