Open AccessЕще раз об андерсеновском следе в романе В. Набокова «Король, дама, валет» [Once Again on Hans Christian Andersen’s Presence in Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel _Korol’, dama, valet_ (_King, Queen, Knave_)]
Author(s) -
Olga Proskurova-Timofeeva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
slavica revalensia./slavica revalensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2504-7531
pISSN - 2346-5824
DOI - 10.22601/sr.2021.08.04
Subject(s) - queen (butterfly) , newspaper , russian literature , history , émigré , classics , art history , art , literature , philosophy , ancient history , sociology , media studies , politics , law , political science , hymenoptera , botany , biology
This article is an inquiry into the possible origin of the title of Vladimir Nabokov’s second Russian novel King, Queen, Knave (Korol’, dama, valet, 1928). It proves a long-forgotten hypothesis that the title’s likely source is a lesser-known fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in several translations into Russian in Berlin and Riga émigré newspapers at the very end of the 1920s. KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov (1899—1977), Korol’, dama, valet (1928), Hans Christian Andersen (1805—1875), Russian émigré Press, History of Literature.