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Article name	Images of Entomologists in the Context of Metatheme: Life-Death-after Death (Based on the Novel «The Gift» by V. Nabokov. 1934)
Authors	Dmitrienko O.A. Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor,, da_olga@mail.ru
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Section	Linguistic worldview
UDK	882
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Annotation	The article is devoted to the special type of Nabokov’s characters, namely to entomologists. The idea of treating entomology as a religion is regarded in the context of Nabokov’s metatheme: life – death – after death. The study is based on the novel «The Gift». The attention is focused on the path of Godunov-Cherdyntsev’s father who is crossing forbidden space. Each of his expeditions is an entomological pilgrimage, a journey to holy lands, and a new stage of learning which climax is a journey to death’s kingdom. Death brings absolute knowledge. The article reveals the function of the images of an «eye» and a «door» and establishes their connection with the Buddhist book «The Book of the Dead».
Key words	entomological pilgrimage, image of the door and threshold, legend about death and immortality of a character, revelation about after death
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