Intertextual connections between "Pale Fire" by V. Nabokov and Chinese literature

The article analyzes the anti-novel "Pale Fire" by V. V. Nabokov in the context of identifying intertextual connections with Chinese literature. The relevance of the conducted research is determined by contemporary trends in the study of the heritage of Soviet and Russian bilingual writers in emigration as continuators of literary tradition in a multicultural environment. The hypothesis of the research is that Nabokov's novel "Pale Fire" evidently bears intertextual connections with Chinese literature and culture. Researchers point to the complex semiotics and system of images created by Nabokov, where Chinese references and images may reflect themes of illusion, "double" life, and lack of authenticity, characteristic of Nabokov's works. Chinese motifs are used to create an exotic background for the narrative, highlighting themes of alienation and the search for the lost. The subject of the study is the intertextual connections with Chinese literature and the image-artifacts of Chinese culture in Nabokov's "Pale Fire." To address this task, it is appropriate to use methods of structural-semiotic analysis, post-classical narratology, and receptive aesthetics. The material for the research is Nabokov's novel "Pale Fire," in which references to Chinese literature and culture can be found. The study tests methods of intertextual, narrative, and structural-semiotic analysis of the work "Pale Fire," created by a multilingual author in a situation of intercultural communication. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that it offers a scientifically grounded complex of methodological achievements obtained as a result of a systematic study of Nabokov's novel. The scientific novelty is also related to establishing the connection between the artistic narrative of Nabokov's anti-novel and Chinese literature. As a result, the research forms an understanding of the possibilities of these methods in analyzing works by bilingual authors. Moreover, the results and proposed methodology for analysis can be applied within a broader historical-literary study of the heritage of Russian migr authors as continuators of the Russian classical literary tradition in other cultural contexts.