纳博科夫与白银时代俄国文化精神

V. Nabokov and the Spirit of the Silver Age

作为一位出生在俄国,青年时期在俄国度过的世界级大作家,弗·纳博科夫的全部创作,都深深地打上了白银时代(1890-1930)俄国传统文化和传统美学的烙印。俄国现实主义美学尤其是伊·布宁的美学追求和创作实践、俄国象征派对彼岸的审美向往,建设人间天国的美学追求和践行象征主义理念的艺术实践、阿克梅派对现实人生的密切关注,对语言诗性的质感,对艺术本身的关注等,都在弗·纳博科夫的作品中留下了深深的印记。他早期用俄语写作、以西林为笔名的小说和诗歌,是我们由以理解其全部创作的关键。不了解他的俄语著作,我们也就无缘真正理解其后来的英语创作。因此,了解其俄语创作时期的哲学、美学和诗学理念,是引导我们最终把握其全部创作的一把钥匙。

As a world-class writer who was born in Russia and whose youth was spent in Russia, V. Nabokov's works has been marked with the spirit of the Silver Age in Russia culture and traditional Russian aesthetics. Russian symbolists' aesthetic pursuit of the other shore, Acmeists' attention to the reality, human life, the art itself, and to the language itself have influenced the writer deeply. His early works in Russian are the key to the understanding of his works both in Russian and in English.