by placing Nabokov in the context of literary modernism.

将以一种把纳博科夫置入现代主义文学背景中的方法来探讨
So, I'm going to outline for you a little bit what I mean by that term,

因此我会先概述此探究手法的角度
and then I'm going to look at some specific predecessors that nabokov refers to,

并对纳博科夫特别提到的几位特别的前辈
and the way he uses them.

以及他对他们风格的借鉴进行剖析
And then, at the very end,

最后
I'm going to try to connect that to nabokov's exile and the themes of exile.

我将把这些与纳博科夫的流放及流放主题本身进行阐述
So, let's start with an example.

先来看个例子
If you look on page 15, Humbert describes his adolescence, his education:

翻到第十五页亨伯特对他的青春期和受教育情况的描写
At first I planned to take a degree in psychiatry

起初我计划如许多"落魄天才"一样
as many manqué talents do; but I was even more manqué than that;

先拿个精神病学学位结果我比他们更落魄
a peculiar exhaustion-- i am so oppressed, doctor-- set in,

我过度压抑太过沉闷以至于医生不得不干涉
and I switched to English literature,

因此我转到英语文学