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Nabokov’s Ontological Thought in His Writing and Reading: Metafictional Ontology in Pale Fire

The purpose of this study is to examine how Nabokov collapsed the conventional reality in Pale Fire. Like the term metafiction, he regards the totality of the meaning in fiction as an ideological product, trying to overthrow it by using double meanings in the narrative. His doubleness is a very efficient device, in which he makes us follow cause and effect narrative line, and he reverses the effect into the cause rule. Then, he makes two narrative lines meet each other. He traces how the early established facts break into the meaningless events in the text. The effects of the collision of two narrative lines are very big impact on Western monoism of epistemological attitude toward ontology. The consequences of the collision in text itself break the early well-established values of literary conceptions. The existence of the major components is undergoing the uneasy status. In the middle of this course, the totality of meaning of the text is not allowed to become fixed. At the result of this, the major components are not able to be fixed. They are only floating in text, which is making the text absent of being. The absence advances to epistemological recognitions in which the true reality is not acquired by ideological metaphysics, but by a self-sufficient system of correlational components.