This article analyzes the interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's experience in the prose of Olga Slavnikova. With the use of the comparative-historical and holistic method of literary work analysis, it has been established that Nabokov’s narrative experiment with the voices of the characters and narrators is continued by Slavnikova in her novel «Alone in the Mirror». Just like in Nabokov's prose, her novel declares the artificial nature of the text, the fictionality of artistic reality by introducing the main characters’ prototypes and the motifs of doppelg?ngers and mirrors. Nabokov's theme of total loneliness and suicide, which is implemented in the «Invitation to a Beheading», is inherited in his novel «Immortal». The protagonists in the «Immortal» and Cincinnat in the «Invitation to a Beheading» are surrounded by «unreal» things and live in a fictitious reality, where freedom can be gained only by dying, by crossing the borders of the fake world.
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