Detective story as reading code of V. Nabokovs «Lolita»

The article is devoted to the problem of using of some detective story models (a classical detective story, a detective story about a sexual psychopath) at different narrative levels in Lolita. The aim of this article is to study the role of the detective formulas in the creation of Nabokovs multilevel and complicated universe. The reader-response aspect of the detective genre makes the reader get involved into the text mysteries.