Artificial Languages in Modern Literature and their Relationships with Natural Languages. Nabokov's "Zemblan" and " Nadsat" of A. Burgess
Abstract
I tried to compare artificial literary languages contained in the two well-known 20th century novels (Pale Fire by V. Nabokov and A Clockwork Orange by A.
Burgess), both of which are in a way embedded in two cultural areas - Anglo-Saxon and Slavonic. The problem of a foreign language (no matter if a "natural" or an "artificial" one) is closely connected with a problem of its translation - both inside and outside the fictional text.
This question is also dealt with in the article. Much has already been written about Nabokov's stylistic approaches, as well as about the enigmatic novel itself.
Therefore I focused almost entirely on the Zemblan language and its functional roles in the novel as compared with its counterpart - the Clockwork Orange teenage slang.