Introduction Chapter One The Speaking I Pinned in the Mundane and the Otherworld in Invitation to a Beheading Ⅰ The Mundane World Ⅱ The Otherworld Ⅲ The Interconnection between the Mundane and the Otherworld Ⅳ Cincmnatus the Writer VS.Nabokov the Speaking Self Chapter Two The Speaking I Inscribed Between Literary Real and Imagination in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Ⅰ The Real and the Real / Imaginative Ⅱ The Life of Sebastian Knight Ⅲ V.'s Epiphany Through Fictional Construction Ⅳ A Space of Mimicry Constructed for Nabokov's Speaking Self Chapter Ⅲ The Speaking I Reinscribed In—between Personal Life and Impersonal Art in Speak, Memory ⅠPast Memories Framed into Pattern of Artistic Consciousness Ⅱ The Retum to the Textual Space in the Past Ⅲ The Self—analysis of the Speaking I Ⅳ The Practice and Creation of the Self in Exile Conclusion Bibliography