TY - JOUR TT - THE USE OF HISTORY IN NABOKOV’S LOLITA AND BELLOW’S HERZOG: FANTASY OR REALITY? AU - Kalay, Faruk AU - Tanrıtanır, Bülent C. PY - 2014 DA - June JF - Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi JO - JISS PB - Süleyman Demirel University WT - DergiPark SN - 1304-6373 SP - 225 EP - 236 IS - 19 KW - Saul Bellow KW - Herzog KW - Vladimir Nabokov KW - Lolita KW - Tarih KW - Gerçeklik N2 - Twentieth-century authors Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov have both made indispensable contributions to American, Jewish, and Russian literature. Bellow’s Herzog and Nabokov’s Lolita both feature autobiographical elements, and they draw on history and mythology. However, their historical plots differ from each other on a functional level. Nabokov uses history to realize his fantasies. For instance, Humbert gives examples from the old the US’ constitutions to sleep with his “nymphet”. For Bellow, history is an organ employed to raise society’s—especially Jewish society’s—historical awareness. The writer who uses examples from historical and philosophical figures makes models. In doing so, he addresses his writing either directly or indirectly toward his readers. Yet these two prominent authors differ significantly from each other in how they take readers to historical places and distinct periods. Their use of history, reality, and mythology in their novels will be discussed CR - ANDERSON, Douglas. (1996),“Nabokov’s Genocidal and Nuclear Holocausts in Lolita” Mosaic, 29 (2): 73-81 CR - BEGLEY, Louise (2007). “Saul Bellow”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 151 (4); 435-438 CR - BELLOW, Saul (1992). Herzog. Sabon; Penguin Readers CR - BERGENHOLTZ, Rita A (1995) “Nabokov’s Lolita”, The Explicator. 53 (4): 231-235 CORNER, Martin (2000). “Moving Outwards: Consciousness, Discourse and Attention in Saul Bellow’s Fiction” Studies in the Novel. 32 (3): 369-385 CR - DELANEY, Bill (1998) “Nabokov’s Lolita” The Explicator. 56 (2): 99-100 CR - FREEDMAN, William (1993). “Hanging for Pleasure and Profit: Truth as Necessary Illusion in Bellow’s Fiction” Paper on Language and Literature. 35 (1): http://www.questia.com/ PM.qst?a=o&d=5001236732 (08.08.2010) CR - GOLDMAN, Anne (2008) “In Praise of Saul Bellow” Michigan Quarterly Review. 47 (1): http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5045024592 (08.08.2010) CR - HUSTIS, Harriet, (2007). ”Time Will Tell: (Re) reading the Seductive Simulacra of Nabokov’s Lolita” Studies in American Fiction. 35 (1): 89-111 CR - JENKINS, Jennifer L. (2005). “Searching High and Lo: Unholy Quests for Lolita” Twentieth Century Literature 51: 210-243 CR - NABOKOV, Vladimir (1995). Lolita London: Penguin Books CR - PIFER, Ellen (1990). Saul Bellow against the Grain Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Press CR - REED, Matt, (2000). “Homo Lepidopterist: Nabokov and the Pursuit of Memory” CLIO 29(2): 271-294 CR - TWEEDIE, James, (2000). “Lolita’s Loose Ends: Nabokov and the Boundless Novel” Twentieth Century Literature. 46 (2): 150-170 CR - WOOD, Michael (1995). “Lolita Revisited” New England Review. 17 (2): 15-49 UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/sbe/issue//247303 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/215107 ER -