Nabokov’s wa y of touching reality: the play on light and colours in the short story "Details of a Sunset"

The paper aims at presenting the way in which Vladimir Nabokov uses coloursand light while creating different layers of reality in his literary works on the exampleof the short story entitled Details of a Sunset. As it is shown in the article, colours in thetext convey not only the information about the visual effects but also some informationreferred to the protagonists and the plot. For instance, in Details of a Sunset the colours ofgreen and ginger used with their symbolic meaning for Clare describe her personality andattitude toward her fiancé. What is, however, more important colours in the text make itpossible for the reader to recognise two different realities that determine understanding ofthe title as well as the whole text