Delacunization techniques in V. Nabokov’s self-translations (based on the writer’s bilingual autobiographical prose: “Other Shores”, “Speak, Memory”)

The article focuses on the problem of delacunization while translating almost any literary text. The specific objective of this study is to identify ways to eliminate lacunae of various types used by V. Nabokov in his bilingual autobiography which is considered to be among the most iconic examples in the history of self-translation. The correlation of the concepts of “realia” and “lacuna” common in modern translation studies is analyzed, in connection with which the methodological basis of the study is the linguistic theory of realities and the theory of lacuna model proposed by Jurij Sorokin and his students.