The novel “Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most extraordinary works of the writer, was published in 1962. After leaving the press, the "Pale Fire" immediately came into the focus of attention of American and English critics. Not all of them appreciated the writer's innovation and saw behind the complicated form the deep philosophical essence of his work. in which the tragedy of the alienated from the world of the human self is revealed and the problems of the relationship between creative fantasy and madness are investigated Fiction and Reality , The Eternal and the Eternal (D.T.) However, despite everything, this most difficult and opaque English-language work Nabokov became a bestseller, giving rise to a lot of literary studies after some time. In the present edition, the novel is printed in a translation performed by Vera Nabokova.