Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McMillin, Arnold

Titel

Bilingualism and Word Play in the Work of Russian Writers of the Third Wave of Emigration: The Heritage of Nabokov

Ist Teil von

• The Modern language review, 1994-04, Vol.89 (2), p.417-426

Ort / Verlag

London: W. S. Maney & Son Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1994

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The immigrant Russian writers Vasilii Aksenov, Zinovii Zinik and Iosif Brodskii reveal Vladimir Nabokov's influence in their fascination with bilingual word play. The Russian writers chose to write in English for varied reasons. The acquisition of a new language seems to make them particularly sensitive to the various connotations and the sound similarities. Zinik's 'The Russian Service' serves as an example of such word play. The poet Brodskii is considered to be most comparable to the novelist Nabokov, even though their genres are different.