Volume 63 (2008), 7

The main line of the paper is putting together several Nabokov’s ways of grasping visual images with the help of words, i.e., grasping them within a text. One of Nabokov’s ideas is to write analogically to the work of a painter. A textual description seems to him very verbose and tedious. The other model of his creative work imitates optical illusions. Textual… Read more

The connection between art and philosophy is presented in the essay on two levels. On one hand they are conceived as two parallel and autonomous attitudes (as in the analyses of E. Husserl), on the other hand there is a possibility of their intertwining (as in the texts of M. Henry). Both directions are based on phenomenology and focus on the problem of „life“ and… Read more