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 Cincinnatus 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 Ⅰ Past Memories Framed into Pattern of Artistic Consciousness Ⅱ The Return 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