IMAGINARY DIASPORAS IN VLADIMIR NABOKOV AND OTTÓ TOLNAI’S PROSE

Abstract

Using the comparative method of literary cross-mapping, the study analyzes the kind of similarities and differences which can be found in the works of Otto Tolnai and Vladimir Nabokov concerning the literary spaces of minorities in Vojvodina and the novel types of the Russian emigrant diasporas in Berlin, Paris, or America, and the role of these types in the aesthetic systems of the two authors. It analyzes in detail the metaphors of visual perception and the role of authorial masks in the processes of transnational imagination.