The “Kirghiz Fairy Tale” in The Gift: Nabokov, Folklore, and Orientalism
In the second chapter of The Gift, Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev recalls a “Kirghiz fairy tale” about a human eye that wants “to encompass everything in the world.” The plot of the story goes back to a Talmudic parable about Alexander the Great. The parable was retold in Russian by a nu...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Studia Litterarum |
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| Online Access: | http://studlit.ru/images/2021-6-1/Panchenko.pdf |
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