Abstract：Carver excels at short realistic novels, which vividly describe characters, reflect life and feelings of grassroots in the society. In terms of narrative, Carver pursues simple narrative to narrate plots and depict characters, which impacts the innermost in a simple way. Nabokov has written many novels, depicting people’s life experiences and psychological states vividly. Nabokov’s novels are full of postmodern narrative techniques, which are not only unique to Nabokov, but also vigorously supportive to plots and characters. Even though the two writers live in different times and under different social backgrounds, there are similarities between their narratives, including unreliable narrator, first point of view, crossed narrative time and isolated narrative space. In addition, above narrative techniques are endowed with same patterns, purposes and effects.
Key words : narrator; point of view; narrative time; narrative space; isomorphism
