"Invitation to a beheading" of V.V. Nabokov and Russian text of "Sovremennye zapiski": different, trickster and the symbols of "the damned kings"

The article of A.V. Mlechko analyzes the functioning of the texts in the journal of the Russian émigrés "Sovremennye zapiski". There is a specific semiotic mechanism, allowing to consider the text from the wholistic viewpoint. These semiotic mechanisms are shown through the examples of the mythological and symbolic analysis of the novel by V.V. Nabokov "Invitation to a Beheading".