The isolated intellectual character in immigration place in Vladimir Nabokov’s works from a social-psychological perspective

Abstract

Vladimir Nabokov is a unique writer of world literature. Being an immigrant helped Nabokov absorb many different cultural streams, creating unique features in his work. Also, it led him to create several characters based on the psychology of migration. One of those types of characters is the isolated character. Nabokov’s most typical isolated intellectual characters include Pnin (in the novel Pnin) and Humbert Humbert (in the novel Lolita). By analyzing the characteristics of these two characters in the process of integrating into the country where they immigrated, the article affirms loneliness/self-alienation/alienation as one of the characteristics of world migration literature from a social and psychological perspective.