V. Nabokov wobec II wojny światowej – twórcza recepcja i moralna ocena / V. Nabokov and the Second World War - creative reception and moral evaluation

Vladimir Nabokov - the Russian and American writer is the author of two novelistic anti-utopias: Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister, in which he expressed his political views, although he usually declared himself as an apolitical writer. In both works the author exposes the mechanisms of co...

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Main Author: Monika Grygiel
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Language:English
Published: Państwowa Akademia Nauk Stosowanych w Chełmie 2022-11-01
Series:Language, Culture, Politics
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Online Access:https://lcpijournal.panschelm.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LCPI_2022_1_Monika-Grygiel.pdf
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description Vladimir Nabokov - the Russian and American writer is the author of two novelistic anti-utopias: Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister, in which he expressed his political views, although he usually declared himself as an apolitical writer. In both works the author exposes the mechanisms of communism and German fascism, warns readers against the enslavement of totalitarian ideology, against passivity in the face of violence and manipulation. Nabokov’s categorical political views stem from the fact that he experienced the consequences of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II, as a result of which he had to flee, first from his native Russia and then from war-torn Europe. The novel Bend Sinister allows direct association of the world depicted with the reality of persecution and repression under Hitlerism, with the morally distorted system of the police state. Nabokov opposes evil, condemns it in all its forms, advocates good, which cannot be seen in the political reality presented by the writer, in the novel’s totalitarian world. It is the duty of the writer to criticize and discredit criminal political ideologies, Nabokov thus emphasizes the importance of goodness and morality in human life.
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V. Nabokov wobec II wojny światowej – twórcza recepcja i moralna ocena / V. Nabokov and the Second World War - creative reception and moral evaluation
Language, Culture, Politics
nabokov
world war ii
totalitarianism
hitlerism
title V. Nabokov wobec II wojny światowej – twórcza recepcja i moralna ocena / V. Nabokov and the Second World War - creative reception and moral evaluation
title_full V. Nabokov wobec II wojny światowej – twórcza recepcja i moralna ocena / V. Nabokov and the Second World War - creative reception and moral evaluation
title_fullStr V. Nabokov wobec II wojny światowej – twórcza recepcja i moralna ocena / V. Nabokov and the Second World War - creative reception and moral evaluation
title_full_unstemmed V. Nabokov wobec II wojny światowej – twórcza recepcja i moralna ocena / V. Nabokov and the Second World War - creative reception and moral evaluation
title_short V. Nabokov wobec II wojny światowej – twórcza recepcja i moralna ocena / V. Nabokov and the Second World War - creative reception and moral evaluation
title_sort v nabokov wobec ii wojny swiatowej tworcza recepcja i moralna ocena v nabokov and the second world war creative reception and moral evaluation
topic nabokov
world war ii
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hitlerism
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