« Pošlost´ », syllogisme hégélien et proverbe : une approche parémiologique du roman de Vladimir Nabokov Rire dans la nuit
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2005
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Kevin Mckenna, « « Pošlost´ », syllogisme hégélien et proverbe : une approche parémiologique du roman de Vladimir Nabokov Rire dans la nuit », Revue des Études Slaves, ID : 10.3406/slave.2005.6951
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“Pošlost´”, Hegelian Syllogism and the Proverb: A Paremiological Approach to Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark First published under the title Camera obscura in the Russian émigré journal, Sovremennye zapiski (1932-1933), Nabokov's novella, Laughter in the Dark amounts to a visual as well as literał enactment of the timeless proverb, Love is Blind. This proverb sheds considerable light on an understanding of Nabokov's novella, especially in the sense of being a parable on the blindly oblivious perils and tribulations deriving from the universal and, especially, Russian phenomenon of pošlost´. If this emphasis on philistine vulgarity defines the personalities and behavior of the central characters in the novella, Nabokov can be said to weave into his story a narrative enactment of the proverb-formula with a uniquely clever design based in Hegelian syllogism. In true Nabokov fashion, Laughter in the Dark thus reveals a strange combination of paremiology, rhetoric and moralistic reflection on the comedy of the human soul.