Vladimir Nabokov describes the true purpose of autobiography as that of following thematic designs through the subject’s life as these are manifested in terms of underlying meanings realized through symbolic imagery. This implies that the significance actualised through the development of a human life could be understood less in relation to chronology than to underlying dynamics of meaning.
These dynamics might not be obvious at the level of surface structure represented by the linear development of the subject’s life, but would be cognized in terms of an image or pattern of images, which integrate various aspects of the temporal flow of individual biography into a framework of mutually explicatory units. Nabokov describes the atemporal but symbolically illuminating character of such imagistic forms in terms of images that emerge in a serendipitous pattern in the subject’s life, and integrate various aspects of their biographical progression into a mutually illuminating whole.
These dynamics might not be obvious at the level of surface structure represented by the linear development of the subject’s life, but would be cognized in terms of an image or pattern of images, which integrate various aspects of the temporal flow of individual biography into a framework of mutually explicatory units. Nabokov describes the atemporal but symbolically illuminating character of such imagistic forms in terms of images that emerge in a serendipitous pattern in the subject’s life, and integrate various aspects of their biographical progression into a mutually illuminating whole.
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