THE PHENOMENON OF SOLITUDE IN THE CREATIVITY OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV AND HERMANN HESSE
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the creativeheritage of Vladimir Nabokov and German Hesse. These are writers of differentnational cultures, people of different sociocultural spaces, but they are broughttogether by the phenomenon of loneliness. For some, loneliness is the happinessof stopping, looking around, and in each case editing one’s measure of a particular relationship to the world. For others, loneliness is the misfortune of loss, lackof demand, uselessness. The reaction to loneliness is different. In the first case, aperson lives, enjoys solitude, solves his problems. In the second case, he onlyexists, experiencing and complexing. He torments himself and those who arenear him. The bright, prone to absolute individualism, the personality of VladimirNabokov went into negative loneliness, almost breaking off relations with theoutside world. V.l. Nabokov became a stranger among his own and not a stranger among strangers. Loneliness became his fate.Loneliness also affected the personality of Hermann Hesse. But in thiscase, the phenomenon of loneliness was imposed by the era of personificationof social relations and the depersonification of the personality of these relations, the alienation of man from everything and everyone and from himself.Vladimir Nabokov was looking for loneliness, and German Hesse waslooking for ways to overcome it. With their attitude to loneliness, both ofthem confirmed that the phenomenon of loneliness, being objective in content, is always subjective in perception, appreciation and experience