GuseinovaElmiraRafikovnaCountry: RussiaCity: SaratovCompany: Saratov State University, Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83 Position: Graduate Student, Chair of the Contemporary Russian LiteratureE-mail: elmiraguseinova79@gmail.com Author's articles Vladimir Nabokov, the Author of Don Quixote Proust – Tolstoy – Chekhov – Nabokov: the Art of Metaphor As a Way of Searching For Reality (on the material of V. Nabokov’s Russian and Foreign Literature Lectures Discourse)