Bibliographic title
Santa-Morgana: Commentary to V. Nabokov’s Play 'The Waltz Invention'
Periodical or collection
Nabokov Online Journal
Periodical issue
v. 4
Publication year
Abstract
The essay examines Nabokov’s play as a pensive response to Nikolai Evreinov’s ideas about the theatricalization of life as well as his engagement with the folk theatre (balagan). It also examines the concept of grotesque introduced in the theory of Vsevolod Meyerkhold. The names of Berg and Waltz, the authors contend, belong to the real personae in the world of Russian theater of the early twentieth century.
In Russian