AN ENCOUNTER WITH DEATH IN THE STORY "THE RAZOR" BY V. NABOKOV
The study of the poetics of Nabokov’s short stories provides deep understanding of his ontology and axiologie. In particular, “The Razor” gives a valuable information for analyzing the writer’s art thanatology. The opposition of vitality and mortality, the problem of metaphysical death and the characters’ ontological thresholds are considered in the article. Much attention is given to color symbolism (the interplay of dark blue, black and white colors) and mythopoetics (a personification of death as an anthropomorphic figure).