ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE APPEARANCE IN THE NOVEL BY V. NABOKOV “INVITATION TO THE PENALTY” // Bulletin of BSU. Language. Literature. Culture. - 2019. №3. . - С. 119-123.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE APPEARANCE IN THE NOVEL BY V. NABOKOV “INVITATION TO THE PENALTY”

UDK: 82-31

In the article we were analyzied the one of the most famous novel of Vladimir Nabokov “Invitation to a Beheading” (2007) from the anthropological point of view. The aim of the article is understanding of mechanism of creation of seeming world and people. The unreal world has such features: form, material, inequality. The main number of heroes looks like puppets (and the main hero partially too) and are contradistinguished to Cincinnat. The specific group is close women — wife and mother. It was recognized the contradiction between nature of the main hero (immaterial, spiritual) and his fear of death. Catastrophe of the plot is connected with intervention of the author.

“Invitation to a Beheading”, the world of seeming, heroes-puppets, destroying of the world, author — demiurge.