空间叙事理论奠基人弗兰克指出,纳博科夫“视小说本质上是空间的,或换言之是共时而非历时的”。以空间叙事理论观照纳氏小说,可发现纳博科夫在用空间的方式书写空间的主题,空间化的时间、语像叙事、空间的形式与空间的主题,是其小说中的重要特点。 Frank Fink, the founder of the theory of spatial narrative, pointed out that Nabokov “sees novels as essentially spatial or, in other words, synchronic rather than diachronic.” From the perspective of spatial narrative theory, Nabokov’s novels can find Nabokov’s main feature of his novel in the way of writing space with space, the time of space, the narrative of language, the form of space and the theme of space.