That other world

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Publication date: 2022 Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications Number of pages: 496 Format: Paperback Book summary: Nabokov owes the first spark of his full awareness to a joke, and concludes that according to the theory of summarization, "the first beings on earth that are prepared to be aware of time are also the first beings prepared to smile." Nabokov's ideas in conclusion are formed around the theme of themes, that is "time as a prison," it lays the foundations for his printed work, shaping its curves and bends. In this book, I embarked on exploring the development of these thematic plans in depth, exile, reality versus dream, cruelty and pain, art and love (or love and art): these are the building blocks with which Nabokov constructed his literary world. This book is less a result of a conscious decision than a result of fascination with Nabokov's themes and the awakening they stirred in me as a reader. I see Nabokov's spiral glowing in my mind, I see its emergence from the depths of absolute darkness, its wrapping radiating colors.