"Haroun and the Sea of Stories" as an illustration of Salman Rushdie’s “influence” theory

The aim of the article is to elaborate on Salman Rushdie’s theory of intertextuality embedded in the concept of “influence” explained by the author in one of his essays from the collection Step Across This Line. Rushdie’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories is used here to illustrate the practical application of Rushdie’s theory. The novel does not only serve as a field for creative allusions to a body of literary texts, both from the Eastern and Western cultural circles, but it is also a metatext on the tradition and new ways of storytelling.