The second lecture in the series "Worlds of Vladimir Nabokov" focuses on his artistic world. Listeners will analyze poetry, Russian and American novels, symbolism, and the author's favorite themes, seeing how the play with form, style, and quotes builds a complex yet captivating system of meanings and offers a new perspective on familiar texts. For many readers, Nabokov is associated with several loud titles, but behind them lies a whole universe of images, techniques, and literary games. This lecture in the series is dedicated to how the writer's artistic world is structured, how different languages, traditions, and biographical experiences intertwine within it. The conversation will begin with poetry, early texts, and their connection to Russian culture in the first half of the 20th century. The poems and prose will show how the author works with the sound of words, the rhythm of phrases, and the nuances of meaning that arise from the play of sounds and metaphors. It will be clear that for him, not only the plots are important, but also how they are told, what internal rhymes connect individual scenes and motifs. Separate blocks will be dedicated to the Russian and American periods. Using examples from works of the first stage, the lecture will show how a circle of themes is formed: memory, identity choice, sense of exile, the value of childhood impressions. Then the focus will shift to texts written in English, where the play with the reader intensifies, the structure becomes more complex, and cultural codes become multilayered. Comparing these periods will help to see what changes in the author's prose along with geography, and what remains unchanged. A particular interest will be the analysis of stylistic techniques. The speaker will focus on irony, pointed hints, echoes with other writers, and the narrative form that constantly pushes for careful reading. It will be shown how quotes, allusions, play with perspective, and an unreliable narrator create an effect of endless interpretation, where the text reveals itself anew each time. Another important topic will be symbolism and the influence of predecessors.