However one might interpret Vladimir Nabokov’s self-styled ‘utter indifference’ to religion, mysticism, and theology, his 1962 metafictional masterpiece, Pale Fire, betrays a measured though nonetheless peculiar engagement with theological ideas and sources. Focusing on the novel’s theological centre—Charles Kinbote’s note to line 549 of John Shade’s poem (‘While snubbing gods, including the big G’), which records Kinbote’s conversation with Shade on 23 June 1959 about religion and God—this article uncovers Pale Fire’s direct engagement with core tenets of the apophatic theologies of St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas, and argues, moreover, that this works to highlight the analogy which the novel seeks to express between theological and literary discourse.

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“上帝之名优先”：弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的《苍白之火》中的“上帝”与无语元素

然而，人们可能会解释弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫（Vladimir Nabokov）自称为对宗教、神秘主义和神学的“完全漠不关心”，他在 1962 年的元小说杰作《苍白之火》（Pale Fire）背叛了对神学思想和资料来源的谨慎但仍然奇特的参与。专注于小说的神学中心——查尔斯·金博特对约翰·谢德诗歌第 549 行的注释（“冷落众神，包括大 G”），记录了 1959 年 6 月 23 日金博特与谢德关于宗教和上帝的对话——本文揭示了 Pale Fire 的直接接触圣奥古斯丁和圣托马斯阿奎那的断然神学的核心原则，并认为，此外，这突出了小说试图在神学和文学话语之间表达的类比。