DWIE HIPERTEKSTUALNOŚCI:
TWO HYPERTEXTUALITIES: VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE

Summary/Abstract: Pale Fire is a novel of a two-stage composition that enables the joining of text units in variant sequences and the imitation of the textual model of the critical edition with scholarly comments being here a record of a fictional reading parasitizing on the commented text. Nabokov’s novel is self-similar (recursive, fractal) because its consistency is based on the similarity of the parts and the whole (e.g. the commentator’s Preface announces the outline which organizes the whole text) and on the similarity of the parts which are linearly incontiguous (e.g. the commentator’s biographical story imitates the biographical story of the author of the poem). Due to this net of similarities which result from some kind of derivation of the story, the “media” hypertextuality understood as a nonlinear and nonsequential organization of a text (Theodor Nelson’s definition) approaches the hypertextuality understood as a kind of intertext relation (Gérard Genette’s definition).

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