Mimicry and Playing in Nabokov’s Novel “Pale Fire”

Abstract

Although in the reader of Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, a search for any logos would turn into a Sisyphean task, although the reading of this novel is not a contact with one meeting, but rather a network of meanings, there is an obvious relationship with the real world in the form of a parody or reassesment. That is why some of the themes that this paper addresses are: the relationship between fiction and reality implied by the author’s narrative method; sexual discourse, as well as a parody of the world of intellectuals (professors, critics, writers), by which Nabokov deconstructs the world to which he himself belongs. Th e influence of the realistic one is obvious, not only with the presence of the elements relevant to the world, but also in the absence that results from it: the poet’s daughter, whose death starts the writing of the poem and a while chain of eventns is a little present - she is plump, not very pretty and too sensitive, completely below the basic requirements of the time of narration that she belongs.