The article demonstrates the narrator’scomplexity in the autobiographical text of the literary biography at the basis of which egocentrism lies as a principle of this prose type construing. Layering refers both to the author and to
the narrator. However, layering of the author causes a change of the narrator’s point of view and its transfer to the 3-rd person’s narration while layering of the narrator is caused by a temporary interval between the time of the narration and the time of the autobiographical event. Ambivalence and a poly discourse character of the autobiographical narration are determined by an ability of the speech person to create texts of different genres and various types.
The review offers a detailed description of the book “Mnemosyne’s Gift. Nabokov’s Novels in the Context of the Russian Autobiographical Tradition” by B. V. Averin. B. V. Averin’s work is devoted to the autobiographical genre in the Russian literature, its features, and also represents a deep analysis of the majority of V. Nabokov’s works from the point of view of autobiographical art. The book covers the main theoretical problems of the autobiographical genre: three-side unity of the author, the intermediate position of autobiographical texts, the multiple “I” phenomenon, the classification of certain types of autobiography, the analysis of the autobiographical creativity of different authors.
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